Example sentences of "never [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It never amounted to much , a few petty annoyances . |
2 | ‘ I make it a rule never to drive at more than forty-five in a built-up area . ’ |
3 | I never realised until now that in fact I have very few people I can trust . |
4 | He never lacked for both helpers and escort , but men on starvation diet take time to respond to good feeding , and their willingness far outran what was left of their strength . |
5 | Well she never realized till today . |
6 | Why had she never realised before now that Dana resented looking like her sister ? |
7 | And the family was never heard of again . |
8 | This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder , or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers , leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again . |
9 | A very few ditched in the Channel and were picked up by Air Sea Rescue , but the majority were posted ‘ missing , believed killed ’ and were never heard of again . |
10 | For practical purposes , the forgeries were never heard of again . |
11 | Never heard of again . |
12 | Eventually he stopped writing and was never heard of again . |
13 | Instead , most students begin with an introduction which is absolutely irrelevant , has nothing to do with what follows , and is never heard of again . |
14 | ‘ … a great deal of academic research work is never heard of again once it has served its basic purpose of obtaining another qualification for its originator . ’ |
15 | Two , maybe three , parachutists were dubiously reported to have been sighted , but they were never heard of again . |
16 | THIS MUST BE A YEAR FOR SURPRISING pianists and here 's one I have never heard of before : young Belgian Laurent de Wilde , whose latest album is ‘ Odd and Blue ’ ( IDA Records ) . |
17 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
18 | One article in particular , from a writer I 've never heard of before , stated that the course was dull and boring and that there was no great degree of difficulty . |
19 | This is according to someone we 've never heard of before and hopefully will never hear of again , a Viscount Ullswater . |
20 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
21 | She was informed that they were being boarded by the police , but she was never heard from again . |
22 | Unfortunately , he was never heard from again . |
23 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
24 | I never got on very well and ended up getting thrown out of my classes . |
25 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
26 | But the mention of Wilde also serves to remind us that social purity never succeeded in totally silencing its opponents . |
27 | ‘ Never eat before now . |
28 | These shops never change in here do they ? |
29 | Such are the rigours of their adulthood ( working in bons , never eating till 11pm ) that many Hoorays remember their schooldays as the happiest time of their lives ; their schoolfriends are those they feel most at ease with , even if at the time they could n't stand them . |
30 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |