Example sentences of "never [vb past] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | England never interacted with India ; it merely turned the country into a fairy-tale playground . |
| 2 | Mercifully , ideas of this kind never met with much support , and finally , in 1932 , the controlling body of world astronomy , the International Astronomical Union , lost patience . |
| 3 | I never met with the fellow of her in my life . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I never lived with any of my parents . |
| 5 | As for the boy , well , he never lived with his father , never saw him , and Pietr refused ever to see the child . |
| 6 | never lived with the Samoans after the first week . |
| 7 | On no no no , no no , oh no , oh they were very , very very , docile you ken , never interfered with nobody or nothing and the funny thing , you know they all get blamed for poaching and that , but that was one thing they may , may poach but never here . |
| 8 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 9 | On Nov. 7 Delors was quoted in London , however , as saying that " I never interfered with the negotiations " . |
| 10 | I ai n't never argued with you but once and that were when you said it'ud be wrong for us to keep Harry . |
| 11 | I am just a humble supporter who , though never blessed with the gift myself , loves the artistry and beauty of football and the poetry in motion displayed by the Athletico forward line . |
| 12 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |
| 13 | But Uncle Walter liked his independence , so he never stopped with them long . |
| 14 | I ai n't never played with a proper doll before . |
| 15 | ‘ We never played with a full deck ’ , complained Clair George . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I never did anything and I never played with children when I was a child because I did n't want to play with peasants on the estate , so I never did anything except sketching , painting and reading , and I 'm still doing pretty well exactly the same thing , and learning languages . |
| 19 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 20 | ‘ I never played with other children and I did n't have any friends . |
| 21 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 22 | Likewise north-facing , and therefore never filled with much light , even in summer , George 's office had been fitted out in style . |
| 23 | I never negotiated with Volvo and I am in a different position to Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle . |
| 24 | We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’ |
| 25 | One had to work under him to discover he never troubled with the charm unless he considered it worth his while . |
| 26 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 27 | Delegation without enabling authority is of little value , the person delegating will never be free from the task and the subordinate never fired with the enthusiasm and dedication which comes with having authority . |
| 28 | Rarely staying in the same place long , as though never satisfied with their accommodation , forever charging about the loch , the problem for anglers is always the same : finding where they lie . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 30 | 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 . |