Example sentences of "never [vb past] his [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , John insisted , I must come home , and home he went , but never told his father about the experience . |
| 2 | Drew never forgot his rapport with the English , and a penchant for their way of life enticed him once again . |
| 3 | Corbett told polic that he never lost his temper with the child and never smacked her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was a great doctor , a super man but he never stamped his authority on the board , ’ said one former colleague . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Old Mahu was on duty , and he never left his shelter by the main gate , once he was sure that everyone was asleep . |
| 9 | He had become a naturalized Englishman , but he never carried his anglophilia to the point of being puritan , or even respectable . |