Example sentences of "[pron] never [vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In hospital I never got off my bed for six weeks .
2 I never went to my room ! ’
3 I never knew by what road the other man would come ; for all I knew he had already been , and gone again , and all in vain , as the thief intended .
4 Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries .
5 From that time on , I never spoke to my mother of my father-never again , till I was eighteen leaving for France , to study there …
6 At the same time , she never swayed from her view that Jane 's photography had great artistic integrity and supported her within the company whatever the criticism .
7 She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum .
8 Ana seemed to be almost hungry for company and she took to coming along to Maggie 's room to chat , although she never spoke of her blindness and Maggie ventured no questions .
9 She never replied to my letter with relevant copy pages from JTR 's book enclosed .
10 Why , Mamma , I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life .
11 But you never believed in her Will , did you ?
12 In fact , I was shattered when you never replied to my letter . ’
13 I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing .
14 As for the boy , well , he never lived with his father , never saw him , and Pietr refused ever to see the child .
15 After all , up to a few hours ago , he never knew of my existence . ’
16 He never thought about his family .
17 He never fought in his life .
18 In fact there are those who claim he never got over his wife 's death , in spite of the fact that he married again — Paula 's younger sister , Sally , as a matter of fact . ’
19 He never went into her shop .
20 One man , trying to find his own tears , turned to looking at why he never cried for his father .
21 As he grew he fought the temptation of sin in his body , and felt the pain of separation in his heart , but he never faltered in his faithfulness to his heavenly Father .
22 He never spoke of his inheritance , but he tried , gently , to introduce Grégoire to some aspects of his business empire .
23 The crosses in the competing behaviour boxes show that during the baseline week he never stayed in his bed until 7am .
24 I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’
25 It never went through my mind that we had left Becky and Emma behind , ’ he said .
26 It never happened in my time . ’
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