Example sentences of "we [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I do n't w we 've never attempted to define development in those terms . |
| 2 | So you may decide on a statement such as , ‘ We intend never to buy any item on HP ’ . |
| 3 | When we mean never we say tomorrow morning — it 's like the Spanish saying mañana . |
| 4 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 5 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 6 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 7 | Monsieur Venet , the proprietor 's son is the chef and cooks with a passion , creating dishes with wonderfully rich sauces and flavours that we 'd never savoured before . |
| 8 | ‘ So we 'd never met , you see . |
| 9 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 10 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 11 | We 'd never even heard anything by them when we started . |
| 12 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 13 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 14 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 15 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |
| 16 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 17 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 18 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 19 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
| 20 | It could have come from what happened with us , even if we 'd never seen each other again ! " |
| 21 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 22 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 23 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 24 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 25 | That was the first time she 'd acknowledged the truth of the malai presence ; we 'd never mentioned the disappearances . |
| 26 | We 'd never met and I was n't very familiar with his work . |
| 27 | we 'd never thought to cast our shadows on it , |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd never seen her before , ’ said Masha , ‘ not till we got into the car . ’ |
| 29 | Now we 'd never had a problem before with high conductivity . |
| 30 | We 'd never tasted Bosnian food until now . |