Example sentences of "[noun] never did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward never did get in touch with Sally again . |
| 2 | The Conservatives never did mount an efficient and effective campaign . |
| 3 | The law as to this is best stated in the words of the judgment in Foster v. Mackinnon ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 C.P. 704 , 711 where it is said that a signature obtained by fraud ‘ is invalid not merely on the ground of fraud , where fraud exists , but on the ground that the mind of the signer did not accompany the signature ; in other words , that he never intended to sign , and therefore in contemplation of law never did sign , the contract to which his name is appended . ’ |
| 4 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 5 | Anyhow , Sonja and Petra never did breakfast . |
| 6 | And Aunt Janice never did remember any more about whatever Rory had hidden in his later work . |
| 7 | But Carol Wilson never did go back to Virgin . |
| 8 | Pointy-Beard never did make it to his feet . |
| 9 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 10 | Even under Anne , when the ministry of the day never did lose a General Election , it was not always able to get the type of Parliament it wanted . |
| 11 | Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show . |
| 12 | ‘ But my father never did try to see me , ’ Jenna said miserably . |
| 13 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 14 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 15 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 16 | ‘ The course of true love never did run smooth . |
| 17 | But the path of true love never did run smooth and who could blame Orsino for overlooking this waif-life creature with the short , dark , cropped hair for the Countess Olivia , she of the long flowing hair and dresses . |
| 18 | But then incompatible interests never did bother our new hero . |
| 19 | Bill Clinton never did get his Oxford degree . |
| 20 | Hierarchy never did have its day . |
| 21 | Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators . |
| 22 | In fact the painter never did return to Koraloona — and Marama , his mistress , always thought he had abandoned her , and over the years became obsessed by bitterness at the betrayal , for she never knew that in 1903 the painter had died , after she had given birth to a daughter , a baby girl so white that her mother christened her Tiare , after the beautiful white flower of the South Seas . |
| 23 | London never did suit me . |
| 24 | They walked back to the cars together and Preston never did get to stand there alone . |
| 25 | Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued . |
| 26 | Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued . |
| 27 | Maxwell never did join G-B , but Balcon 's departure was followed by the closure of the company 's larger Shepherd 's Bush Studio . |
| 28 | On the other hand Edward II tried in vain to get Robert Baldock provided to Lichfield in 1321 , to Winchester in 1323 and to Norwich in 1325 ; Baldock never did become a bishop . |
| 29 | In all probability , intermediates never did exist . |