Example sentences of "[pron] never [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never knew anything about the facts of life — I did n't know until far too late . |
| 2 | I never saw her in the daytime . |
| 3 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 4 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 5 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 6 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 7 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 8 | I never met anyone on the tube before from choir . |
| 9 | Strange , I never told him about the horrors of Maubisson . ) |
| 10 | And I never took anyone beyond the lawn , because my friends considered gardens boooo-ring ! — which they were , in Suburbia . |
| 11 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 12 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 13 | I never wanted one in the house . ’ |
| 14 | But I never grabbed anyone by the goolies . |
| 15 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 16 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 17 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 18 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 19 | She never associated him with the missing lad till she saw the picture . |
| 20 | She never invited him to the jolly ones . |
| 21 | Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband . |
| 22 | You never even , you never told me about the one |
| 23 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 24 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 25 | If London did n't go as you 'd hoped — perhaps you never made it to the end — a float will help you put things into perspective and will leave you feeling more positive . |
| 26 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 27 | You never wanted him in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way . |
| 29 | We never had anything on the walls anyway . |
| 30 | We never met anybody in the country , but sometimes we visited some of my family who live near London . |