Example sentences of "never [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
2 ‘ Paheri never once looked at a woman , though of course by thirteen we were hoping to match him .
3 But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor .
4 ‘ I NEVER ever went to a gig or had even heard of the term ‘ gig ’ before I joined the band , ’ says the little girl who owns pop 's most exquisite voice .
5 But I never ever worked on a boat you know .
6 In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office .
7 There was , he said , ‘ no interest whatsoever ’ to the extent that : ‘ When I left junior school , they [ his surrogate parents ] never even came to the school to see about it .
8 But he never even qualified as a gynaecologist , the Old Bailey jury heard .
9 I never even consented to the hotel , did I ?
10 He never quite got over the sense of being a boy in the presence of an adult .
11 By the time the fleet of ambulances arrived , Elfman had metamorphosized from popular hero to universal laughing-stock and he never fully recovered from the experience .
12 We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day .
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