Example sentences of "never [verb] 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 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 3 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 4 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 5 | Did you never see him at the City of the Horizon ? |
| 6 | She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 9 | He was a zealous MP and served on numerous committees , but the House never elected him to the council of state . |
| 10 | She would certainly never love him in the future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I thought despairingly " I 've only wounded him and now I 'll never find him in the dark . " |