Example sentences of "he never did " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Morpurgo , for one , 'e never did anything else . ’ |
| 2 | And Francis would know something was happening : he would not leave it be until he 'd extracted every detail , he never did . |
| 3 | He got out his pills , tipped them out on the table and started counting them — which took absolutely ages because he never did count too well . |
| 4 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 5 | ‘ No , he never did . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He never did , ’ Cullam said wildly . |
| 7 | And always , at the back of his mind , there was the business with the Police ; a mere shadow , as he repeatedly reminded himself , without substance , but there just the same and often , as he went through Ostkreuz on the S-Bahn , he was tempted to get off and see Lieutenant Werner , merely to get the matter sorted out once and for all but , mindful of Bodo 's advice , he never did . |
| 8 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 9 | Is it not possible for a person to ‘ remember ’ something he never did ? |
| 10 | Throughout the summer he was playing ‘ catch-up ’ — though he never did . |
| 11 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 12 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 13 | He never did , of course , and never would , but the fact that the threat had been made showed how strongly he felt on it . |
| 14 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 15 | Nails was very unlikely to have left the car in the same place ; he never did , it was too inconvenient . |
| 16 | On many occasions I asked Alf if he had taken the money to pay the debt but he never did ! |
| 17 | Unfortunately Shackleton died whilst still in the Antarctic on 5 January 1922 , and so he never did search for the treasure . |
| 18 | He never did anything to thwart his father , ‘ Except to become an actor . |
| 19 | He never did that . |
| 20 | Whatever it was , he never did . |
| 21 | A few credits shy of his degree at the University of Missouri , however , he took off for Los Angeles , ostensibly to attend art school , which he never did . |
| 22 | But he never did . |
| 23 | The florist sat down , his back straight , his hat gripped tightly on his knees , mortified at having to exhibit his bald crown , a thing he never did , even at mealtimes . |
| 24 | Anselm associated himself with their point of view whole-heartedly , though the community felt that he never did quite enough . |
| 25 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 26 | He never did with his clients . |
| 27 | But he never did : the vision which can be intimated in his poetry could not be embodied upon the stage . |
| 28 | He never did . |
| 29 | I got offered a part-time job in a bakery at the weekends , and he said he 'd look after the kids , but he never did , so I could n't do it . |
| 30 | He said he 'd convert and he never did . ’ |