Example sentences of "and never [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Larwood , 88 , was shunned by the cricketing establishment for many years afterwards and never played for England again . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end she had to realise she could n't manipulate me — that I did n't love her and never had in the true sense of the word . |
| 3 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Ah ! j'adore ça ’ , he said and never looked at a single picture . |
| 5 | She got ready for bed and never looked at herself again but it was hard to bring her mind back to Ana 's problems and the great mystery of the hacienda . |
| 6 | Jones , 33 , took a 3-0 lead and never looked in any danger after that . |
| 7 | Christie was away smoothly out of his blocks and never looked like being caught , though the bustling Rosswess pulled clear of the remainder of the field , including the two Scottish Commonwealth Games representatives , Jamie Henderson , who was third , and Elliot Bunney . |
| 8 | Tony Greig had already failed in his attempt to make the West Indies ‘ grovel ’ , and never looked like doing it now . |
| 9 | In the first half they had dominated the line-out through Bayfield and David Baldwin , they had handled the New Zealand scrum capably and they had put together two backline tries with training ground precision , whereas the struggling New Zealanders could find only two penalty goals from Greg Cooper and never looked like mounting a try-scoring attack . |
| 10 | Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go . |
| 11 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 12 | It had been his only relationship , a habit of natural loyalty founded in his childhood , further cemented by the dependence of the field officer on his Control , and never questioned in its foundations … perhaps because , in accepting the Colonel as his father-figure , he had been able to protect himself from the manner of his real father 's death . |
| 13 | I grabbed the fiver and ran and never returned to the casino again . |
| 14 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 15 | A traditionally holy part of Dakota which was seized by the American government , stripped of its mineral wealth and never returned to its rightful owners , the hills house a world-famous testament to white power . |
| 16 | Two years later , he left work to visit his sick father in Peking , and never returned to his unit . |
| 17 | So people left Earth and never returned to that planet . |
| 18 | Friendships made in this country were warmly reciprocated by the Silvers in their beautiful old house in Mt Vernon Street in Boston , where they lived an elegant and ‘ simple ’ life : they never owned a car , and never cooked in their kitchen ; all meals except breakfast were eaten in restaurants . |
| 19 | Gandhi describes it as gentle , non-wounding and never associated with anger or malice : ‘ It is never fussy , never impatient , never vociferous . |
| 20 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |
| 21 | In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited . |
| 22 | That is , his mother inherited the School first and never went in a train if she could help it . |
| 23 | They got to their feet , drank their sherry , smiling a lot , and never went near each other again . |
| 24 | It was true that Conchis was a recluse and never came to the village , but that he had been a collaborationist was a lie . |
| 25 | I sent him a fax the next day and never heard from him again . ’ |
| 26 | But petipa kept to well-defined limits of courtly behaviour and never fell into an extravagant style , even in the market place scene of Don Quixote . |
| 27 | He was never an ideological coalitionist and never fell under L.G. 's spell , for all their good personal relations . |
| 28 | Research stressed political and administrative factors in isolation and never succeeded in analysing the way local politics are linked to wider social and economic processes . |
| 29 | It faced hostility from Labour leaders , and never succeeded in gaining an electoral or industrial base . |
| 30 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |