Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 2 | People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away . |
| 3 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 4 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 5 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 6 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 7 | I 'd never done anything like that before . |
| 8 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 9 | I 'd never seen what people drank before so that was interesting — nor did I realize quite how many of the youngsters smoked ! |
| 10 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 11 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 13 | I 'd never felt that tired in my life . |
| 14 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 15 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 16 | I suppose I 'd never really sat down and cried about it , ’ she recalls . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |
| 18 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |
| 19 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 20 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 21 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 22 | I 'd never done any of that before either . |
| 23 | He was spending money like I 'd never seen . |
| 24 | ‘ I wish I 'd never told Joyce , ’ she said . |
| 25 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ An area I 'd never really looked into — intersexing . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish I 'd never been born . |
| 28 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 29 | I was a new face in the orchestra , very inexperienced , I 'd never played the piece , though I 'd studied it and practised my part . |
| 30 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |