Example sentences of "[pers pn] never [vb past] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never had a singing lesson in my life , it was just a natural thing for me . ’ |
| 2 | I never had a TV set until I bought one with my first lot of royalties and the only way we got the record player was because my dad won about £40 on the pools . |
| 3 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 4 | The arrangements would be made and er oh well I never saw an oak coffin but we you 'd hear |
| 5 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 6 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 7 | ‘ But I never mentioned the word cancer . |
| 8 | I have seen many cartoons of American grandmothers in rocking chairs on their front porches and am always reminded of Mrs. Burden , although she never had a clay pipe in her mouth . |
| 9 | The launch of the Agatha Christie Society will put an end to one of her biggest mysteries — why she never had a fan club . |
| 10 | She never got a phone call about that job |
| 11 | She never repeated the goodwill gesture . |
| 12 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 13 | Mm , you never had a guide dog ? |
| 14 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 15 | ‘ And you never saw the Crocus List ? ’ |
| 16 | Needless to say , we never passed a hat shop . |
| 17 | and that was the only one night we never took the video camera with us |
| 18 | Give them the drawing number so we sent a transmittal note , course we never got a transmittal note back . |
| 19 | No we never got the fire engine out we just er we just when we got |
| 20 | Although we never transformed the inquiry process into anything approaching a people 's tribunal , we did turn it into something much more accessible than many people had ever conceived . |
| 21 | Taking the lead against the coalition was a small but implacable group of diehards ; they were never more than a few dozen in the Commons and , although they attracted shifting support on particular issues , they never threatened the coalition majority . |
| 22 | They never completed the train journey to Penn Station . |
| 23 | I 'm saying years ago my old dad , he , he were eighty nine and he never had a blood test in his life . |
| 24 | In the air he never mastered the throttle setting , so that he either fell behind of pulled ahead . |
| 25 | He never left the centre circle but the People reporter gave him nine out of ten and he deserved it . ’ |
| 26 | He never won a Gold Cup or Grand National , but he won everything else . |
| 27 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |
| 28 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |