Example sentences of "never [vb past] he [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 2 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 3 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 4 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 5 | He was a zealous MP and served on numerous committees , but the House never elected him to the council of state . |
| 6 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |