Example sentences of "never [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 2 | He said , but he never fought the election , well now I know he did , that 's a mistake cos he did . |
| 3 | He knew , needless to say , that his analysis of the role of the economy in social life was revolutionary , but never realised the extent to which it was based on a radical philosophy . |
| 4 | As his biographer Suárez Fernández admits , " Franco never cultivated the art of paradox . " |
| 5 | After several months of trials with human gonadotrophin and conceptions which were made in vitro — the mother of course never met the donor of the sperm which fertilized her ovum — a conception was selected and detailed predictions made — ’ |
| 6 | Never met the man . |
| 7 | Never met the Aged . |
| 8 | I never met the right woman . |
| 9 | " I know you 're a faggot and everything but I 'll tell you what the problem is : you just never met the right guy . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course we believe you when you say you never met the girl . |
| 11 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 12 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 13 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 14 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 15 | Even the most optimistic forecasters , though , never expected the Japanese to change their mode of social operation overnight . |
| 16 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
| 18 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 19 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 20 | Ghana agreed to provide cheap power , but the Ghanaians never expected the smelter to take as much as 65 per cent of the dam 's power . |
| 21 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 22 | Through her iron self-discipline , Laura had managed to control some of her phobias , such as fear of cows , small insects and mice , but she never obliterated the memory of how she had suffered in younger days . |
| 23 | They never asked the people what they wanted . |
| 24 | THE greatest survey ever into sexual habits reveals that the Great Aids Scare never became the nightmare that was feared . |
| 25 | She 'd never been driven that fast before , never experienced the sheer exhilaration and heart-stopping fear that merged into one as the F40 powered on the knife edge of its optimum limits . |
| 26 | Carolyn never experienced the same sort of anguished worry about her as she had with Chris . |
| 27 | Well I buy Writers Monthly , but I never read the damn thing , you know , so I |
| 28 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 29 | Nigel laughed maliciously , but hoped that the old medium never got the chance to review his books . |
| 30 | He never got the chance again . |