Example sentences of "never [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 2 | She did n't have either the time or the inclination to hold ‘ receptions ’ — whatever they might be — but when she returned home at night , exhausted from her day in the City , she never failed to appreciate the deep sense of peaceful calm and serenity of the large , thickly carpeted room . |
| 3 | Grace never failed to send a letter on the first of every month , and somehow managed to sound cheerful despite being surrounded by death . |
| 4 | He had an impish look about him , and the most beguiling manner , a combination which never failed to capture the hearts of all who came into contact with him . |
| 5 | BOB MARLEY 'S eldest daughter , Cedella , never got to do the one thing she always desperately wanted — join her late father on tour . |
| 6 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 7 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 8 | oh yes , we never got to see the fields did we , cos the mist coming out ? |
| 9 | Footnote : The Greatest Living Irishman never got to pat the knee of the Greatest Living Human Being , but it was n't for lack of trying . |
| 10 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 11 | However , he never ceased to admire a poem like ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ : |
| 12 | Gunnell has pointed out that , unlike the Greeks , the Hebrews never tried to analyse the ‘ problem ’ of time as such . |
| 13 | We never tried to repeat the occasion . |
| 14 | He never tried to force the issue . |
| 15 | ‘ She never stopped telling the story- and believe me , when my Grandma Gertie liked a story , she aired it often — of the weird goings-on in the place in Cable Street , and how she was sure the bedroom was haunted . |
| 16 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 17 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 18 | They never seemed to use the drawers of the chest , so sometimes I confiscated them . |
| 19 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 20 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 21 | I agreed , but never seemed to notice a Gray Mare on any of my trips to Kilburn . |
| 22 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 23 | He liked her , she knew , although he never seemed to gather the courage to do anything about it . |
| 24 | But she never seemed to make the connection between these skills and the sickness notes , apparently in parents ' hands , which her pupils brought to school after prolonged absences of two or three weeks . |
| 25 | Anne never seemed to have a free moment . |
| 26 | It was totally demanding , I never seemed to have a free minute . |
| 27 | The baby nest I bought , a sort of quilted bag , was a waste of money because I never seemed to have the opportunity to use it . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 29 | The fellows never seemed to rib the other NAAFI girls very much : they joked with them , but not in the same way as they did with Lemon . |
| 30 | Strange to say in all Communist countries , tower-blocks were always being put up but their development never seemed to diminish the housing shortage . |