Example sentences of "never did [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
2 | And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . |
3 | Never did a woman enjoy a poking more … |
4 | ‘ I never did a reading for you , did I ? |
5 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
6 | She never did a wrong thing in her life . |
7 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
8 | I never did the Crucifixion . |
9 | The idea was that I was going to have these images around the base , and then I never did the Crucifixion . |
10 | English painters never did the same , clustering at Hastings or Margate or Eastbourne to gaze out at a grumpy , monotonous Channel . |
11 | I never did the Far East unfortunately . |