Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when she later encountered more difficulties , she tried all sorts of positions , but never changed her grip on the hammer . |
| 2 | Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance . |
| 3 | She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district . |
| 4 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 5 | No , John insisted , I must come home , and home he went , but never told his father about the experience . |
| 6 | ‘ My mother says that though you were always very pleasant and she liked you , you never paid your share of the office coffee . |
| 7 | Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s . |
| 8 | Drew never forgot his rapport with the English , and a penchant for their way of life enticed him once again . |
| 9 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 10 | Corbett told polic that he never lost his temper with the child and never smacked her . |
| 11 | Tolkien in other words never lost his belief in the reality and continuity , not only of language and of history , but of human nature and of some intellectual problems . |
| 12 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 13 | He was a great doctor , a super man but he never stamped his authority on the board , ’ said one former colleague . |
| 14 | But it is also important to remember that the object of the 1790 visit was really Switzerland , traditionally the land of liberty ; Wordsworth never retracted his belief in the ideals of Switzerland , which helps to explain why , when France threatened Swiss independence in the late 1790s , it was necessary for him to make a decisive choice . |
| 15 | Such train travellers , of course , would have funds ; most Vasilariovites never left their reef-hive during a lifetime … |
| 16 | Old Mahu was on duty , and he never left his shelter by the main gate , once he was sure that everyone was asleep . |
| 17 | He had become a naturalized Englishman , but he never carried his anglophilia to the point of being puritan , or even respectable . |