Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not as if I could tell you much , anyway , seeing I never met her . ’ |
| 2 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 3 | ‘ Really , Sandy , you ought to knock or you never know what you 'll find , ’ he said in a plummy voice . |
| 4 | Parents have handed over to an outsider to solve a problem he or she never has to face . |
| 5 | There 's the Andamans , where they never talk , just converse entirely in song — a sort of chant . |
| 6 | where they never have been sent before |
| 7 | But no mention of two-way radios appears anywhere in the official report , so either the police concealed the details from the inquiry or they never existed . |
| 8 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 9 | In its capacity as spokesman the BDDA was particularly active in the educational field , where it never ceased to act as a pressure group in favour of the combined system . |
| 10 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |
| 11 | Now he is beginning to make money from his books , ‘ although I never went out to write ’ he adds . |
| 12 | At home the attitude of my parents-in-law was that I was from outside Pakistan , so I must be very independent — although I never showed my independence . |
| 13 | It 's good news for hunting , although I never gave much for Mr Kinnock 's observations in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | Shaun was more difficult as a personality , although I never had any fights with him myself . |
| 15 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 16 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 17 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 18 | A few weeks later I noticed that the anemone crab had disappeared and as more time went by , my fish stock began to decrease , although I never found any dead fish in the tank . |
| 19 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 20 | My South American Aluminium Catfish seemed to settle in well , although I never saw it eat , dry or live food . |
| 21 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 22 | ‘ I was partially open … although I never filly declared that I was chiefly interested in fiddling ’ ( Ditton 1977 ) . |
| 23 | I have no objection to photographs , although I never use them , as long as they are used intelligently . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , he had a lot of very strong , incredibly positive influences on many artists , and I am one of those artists , although I never exchanged two words with him . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , although I never quite understood how he managed it . |
| 26 | Fiercely private , he will only talk about 39-year-old Frances in professional terms but affection for her sneaks through : ‘ I actually met her through work , although I never worked with her directly until now , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Although I never did . |
| 28 | This equipment I kept for about three years , although I never forgot the quality of the original sounds I 'd heard , so I decided to invest in what I thought was some serious equipment . |
| 29 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 30 | although I never see her on Wednesday night . |