Example sentences of "they [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |
| 2 | They promised never to tell why but it was , Summers says , Hoover 's blackmail . |
| 3 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 4 | Presumably they 'd never done anyone for the job . |
| 5 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 6 | And they 'd never told him . |
| 7 | They 'd never asked him . |
| 8 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 9 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 10 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 11 | This word was said in such a way , and accompanied by a look , that told the woman behind the counter that she did n't know her business , because they 'd never had a pennorth of tiger nuts . |
| 12 | The band had been playing together for two years , at school dances , in pubs and as support at a couple of bigger concerts , but they 'd never been written about before . |
| 13 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |
| 14 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 15 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome , they 'll wish they 'd never been born ! ’ |
| 16 | They 'd never done that to her before , never threatened to take her ship away . |
| 17 | A great deal of my audience enjoyed them immensely even though they 'd never heard them before . |
| 18 | A cluster of keys which they 'd never found doors to fit ; instruction documents for a blender he 'd burned out making midnight margaritas ; a plastic bottle of massage oil . |
| 19 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 20 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 21 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 22 | Which they wish to God they 'd never got into . |
| 23 | ’ They brought the nurse round because they 'd never seen me like this before . |
| 24 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 25 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 26 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 27 | They 'd never you know imagined that anything like that could quite happen so we , |
| 28 | They 'd never met before . |
| 29 | The depth of semi-recognition , even though they 'd never met , was puzzling and disturbing . |
| 30 | Even the older villagers claimed they 'd never known anything like it . |