Example sentences of "never [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never did answer that one . |
| 2 | And you never did answer me ! |
| 3 | The law as to this is best stated in the words of the judgment in Foster v. Mackinnon ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 C.P. 704 , 711 where it is said that a signature obtained by fraud ‘ is invalid not merely on the ground of fraud , where fraud exists , but on the ground that the mind of the signer did not accompany the signature ; in other words , that he never intended to sign , and therefore in contemplation of law never did sign , the contract to which his name is appended . ’ |
| 4 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 5 | One elderly farmer said : ‘ I never did go much on Princess Diana . |
| 6 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 7 | But Carol Wilson never did go back to Virgin . |
| 8 | Anyhow , Sonja and Petra never did breakfast . |
| 9 | Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators . |
| 10 | Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show . |
| 11 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 12 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 13 | In all probability , intermediates never did exist . |
| 14 | And from the ‘ land of oranges ’ , the new exiles arrived in the West Bank and in Lebanon and in the Kingdom of Transjordan with an identity — as ‘ Palestinians ’ — that applied to a country that no longer existed , that indeed never did exist as an independent nation . |
| 15 | But we never did walk across the river before or since . ’ |
| 16 | THE GREEN SHOOTS never did appear . |
| 17 | It was an interesting idea , but I never did think it would work . ’ |
| 18 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 19 | ‘ I never did meet Sartori , ’ the man said . |
| 20 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 21 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 22 | But he never did tell me what he 'd put on that stick . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 24 | She never did discover how the puddings turned out . |
| 25 | I never did discover who he was , the son of the house or just another guest , and my own obtuseness and incuriosity now appear to me more revealing than anything else of my state at the time . |
| 26 | In fact the painter never did return to Koraloona — and Marama , his mistress , always thought he had abandoned her , and over the years became obsessed by bitterness at the betrayal , for she never knew that in 1903 the painter had died , after she had given birth to a daughter , a baby girl so white that her mother christened her Tiare , after the beautiful white flower of the South Seas . |
| 27 | But then incompatible interests never did bother our new hero . |
| 28 | where we were , that they 're going to rebuild , going to build it all the time I was there , but they never did build it , did they ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |