Example sentences of "[vb base] never [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 2 | ‘ You 've never implored in your life , ’ Ruth murmured , resting her wet head on his shirt for a second before pulling away and perching on the edge of the lounger . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never snuggled in my life ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There are some conditions here I 've never seen in my career or am ever likely to see again , ’ says one of the group 's doctors . |
| 5 | The FA are aware of Souness 's comments , particularly about referee Brian Hill , whom he accused of letting ‘ things go on which I 've never seen in my time back in England ’ . |
| 6 | I 'll feel good inside me 'cos she should n't dare to talk to me like that 'cos I 've never said to 'er noffink like that , you know . |
| 7 | ‘ First you try to kill yourself by running off into a blizzard , and now you risk life and limb because you ca n't even bring yourself to admit to me that you 've never skied in your life before . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You know I 've never agreed with your will , ’ he continued . |
| 9 | I 've never thought of my divorce as a failure . |
| 10 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 11 | Sorry , I 've never worked in your industry , why is that ? |
| 12 | You 've never talked about your family . ’ |
| 13 | At least I need never think about my convict again . |
| 14 | A prompt reply I would have deemed a common decency , you being a fellow screenplay writer , though I must say I have never cared for your work , finding it , at once , both florid and superficial . |
| 15 | I have never heard in my life such a noise . |
| 16 | He would tease , too — telling people that Rogers sat all day in his office , counting the money , except on the occasions he made forays to location ‘ wearing a pair of green wellies ’ — which Rogers maintains , ‘ I have never worn in my life ’ . |
| 17 | Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence . |
| 18 | I have never swum in my life , he thought , is he lay wakefully at dawn . |
| 19 | As Dussie Nell Davis , a US majorette coach , commented almost twenty years ago , ‘ Sex is a word I have never used with my girls and I never will . |
| 20 | I have never sweared in my life . |