Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Fitzsimmons , known as ‘ Fitz ’ in boxing circles , was the only English world heavyweight champion , though he never fought in England . |
| 2 | That never arose in Gillick 's case , the nearest approach to it being the proposition , accepted by all parties , that the court had power to override any minor 's consent ( not refusal ) to accept treatment . |
| 3 | Apart from this venture , which took place on 6 August 1952 , the Coronations never operated on Dickson Road , Lytham Road or Marton . |
| 4 | England never interacted with India ; it merely turned the country into a fairy-tale playground . |
| 5 | Instead I 've been thrust into the sort of social whirl I never experienced in Nottingham — or in London , for that matter . ‘ |
| 6 | She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions . |
| 7 | These objects include some of the museum 's most precious objects , many never lent outside Russia before . |
| 8 | Never got to Chelsea barracks . |
| 9 | He never lived in Eaton Square again . |
| 10 | WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 . |
| 11 | ‘ I never cared for Medoc . |
| 12 | Thus , Frederick II , grandson of Frederick Barbarossa , ruled in Sicily and fought to extend his power into northern Italy , but never ruled in Germany in the manner of his illustrious forebear . |
| 13 | In Jamaica the people never referred to DQ ( as Don Quarrie is almost universally known ) as a black anything . |
| 14 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |
| 15 | It never occurred to Robbins that there was any need to describe the internal culture of higher education ; it was taken for granted that everyone knew what it was , or at least what it should be . |
| 16 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 17 | It never occurred to Charles that Diana would find any of this odd or difficult to accept ; but her upbringing had been entirely different . |
| 18 | There is a smell of dung from the fields , something I never encountered in West Germany . |
| 19 | What right did they have , that lot , getting you to think about how bloody life was , sitting in this poky flat with Ted always so tired he never played with Frieda or talked to herself and fell asleep straight after having it off . |
| 20 | Spurs ’ defender Neil Ruddock never played with Gazza but has lined up against him and he said : ‘ I 've only played against him once and I could n't get near him . |
| 21 | ‘ I never played for England either . |
| 22 | Mr Larwood , 88 , was shunned by the cricketing establishment for many years afterwards and never played for England again . |
| 23 | The humiliated Pernia never played for Argentina again and the normally partisan crowd jeered at the referee for dismissing Johnson . |
| 24 | No never played never played in America . |
| 25 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 26 | I never negotiated with Volvo and I am in a different position to Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle . |
| 27 | He succumbed finally to the two-pronged attack of the papacy and the anti-imperialists , but a number of districts of Ancona never came under Innocent . |
| 28 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 29 | It never rained on Fiji |
| 30 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |