Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 4 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 5 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 6 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 7 | His father had never received compensation from the British Government — his government — for the destruction of his property by those cursed Sinn Feiners . |
| 8 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 9 | Unlike its East End rivals , however , Truman 's never stopped brewing at Burton , and its Black Eagle brewery there only finally closed in 1970 . |
| 10 | Her imagination had never painted pictures like this , though , and she stole another glance at the man who held the plane steadily on its course as Mitch took his shots . |
| 11 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 12 | Jack 's Irish blood made him sympathize with the Levellers — the Irish have never forgiven Cromwell for the Drogheda massacre , you know . |
| 13 | Morris , it seems , has never forgiven Karajan for this piece of seeming musical dissimulation which he evidently regarded , and still regards , as a moral outrage . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's never forgiven Josh for Ebbie dying the way he did . |
| 15 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 16 | Frequently he paused to inspect his tail as though he had never heard noises like that before . |
| 17 | Orkney Islands Council have never developed guidelines of their own . |
| 18 | He had never favoured telepathy as a means of communication ; something about rolling words about on his tongue ( particularly ones with lots of rs in ) appealed too much to him . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that Yugoslavia was more market-conscious than some other socialist countries , the development of exports was never given priority in its industrial strategy . |
| 20 | Typically he was never given acknowledgement for his part in its creation . |
| 21 | Never given office by the Liberals , he served as a back-bencher on several royal commissions and committees . |
| 22 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 23 | The wonder was , that the brass door-plate , with the interesting inscription ‘ MRS TIBBS ’ , had never caught fire from constant friction , so perseveringly was it polished . |
| 24 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 25 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 26 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 27 | Indeed the legendary ‘ Hawk ’ had led Dave Forbes on the never revealed mission to Iran in 1980 to rescue a British hostage . |
| 28 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 29 | I 'd never met people like this before and really did not know what to make of them . |
| 30 | One of the workers and one of the women , who 's never attended meetings of any kind before living in the refuge , want to go . |