Example sentences of "they never [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 2 | They never read in anything longer than ten-minute sessions . |
| 3 | They never campaigned for military preparedness . |
| 4 | Often the outcome is so rewarding , managers wonder why they never thought of doing it before . |
| 5 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 6 | But they never thought in those terms . |
| 7 | They never ran in service again . |
| 8 | They never touched on anything even remotely like this . |
| 9 | They never got to sorting those out . |
| 10 | By the end of the evening I had come to feel sorry for the waiters who had so debased themselves by their participation in the comedy ; not because they were cheating the state , but because they never responded to anyone except as an object , a part of the system in which they were trapped . |
| 11 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 12 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 13 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 14 | If someone ‘ recovers ’ from their arthritic condition but later develops a heart condition then , in reality , they never recovered at all but the focus of their disease shifted from a more superficial to a deeper level . |
| 15 | However , they never recovered after crashing to 31-5 as Taylor took an Australian one-day record four catches and used his bowlers impressively in the absence of injured regular captain Allan Border . |
| 16 | Dropping six of the eight singles points proved their undoing against France , losing 7-4 , while they never recovered from giving up the foursomes to the Italians . |
| 17 | It was a magnificent fightback and such was Welsh distress that they never looked like preventing it . |
| 18 | And though Villa 's lively attack looked the more likely to score , they never looked like recovering after Kiwomya had given his side a deserved lead . |
| 19 | And though Llanelli managed a try themselves from Lyn Jones , they never looked like continuing their record scoring spree . |
| 20 | Up front United faded … they never looked like finding a second goal and there was no surprise when Albion ran in a third … |
| 21 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 22 | The philosophy which they never tired of expounding to us included visions of a new world , which although sketchy and inevitably idealistic often showed an artistic and positively creative side to their existence . |
| 23 | They never came to terms with the speed of Dalian Atkinson ; neither did Dean Saunders . |
| 24 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 25 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 26 | From thousands of prisoners , thirty men elected to join him ; they never went into action . |
| 27 | But they never went to church , as far as she knew . |
| 28 | All on Stenness , they never went to Harray for there were plenty of fish in Stenness you see . |
| 29 | They never went near Ben Ami , they said , and smiled at me . |
| 30 | ‘ They never went near me again . ’ |