Example sentences of "[verb] never [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having resolved never to let it happen again , she aims to provide not only for her retirement but for her daughter Gemma , aged ten , who with luck will be well settled into her career by the time Margaret 's DOUBLE PAYOUT policy matures . |
| 2 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 3 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 4 | He has never asked me to read many putts ; he 's such a good reader of greens , and he says a professional golfer should putt by feel . |
| 5 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 6 | ‘ Stan Flashman has never asked me to come back , ’ said Fry ‘ I just turn up . |
| 7 | She has never asked me to leave my wife and children because she knows the pain of divorce . |
| 8 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 9 | Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory |
| 10 | I have a friend who has had a miserable marriage , because his wife has never given him her trust . |
| 11 | It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it . |
| 12 | Indeed , it had been on roach trips that I have found most of my bream swims in the past and although I 'm a roach man first and foremost , a splendid , clean seven pound river bream has never given me cause for complaint ! |
| 13 | There is a tiny glass bead in the door , one of those squint-through devices where you check the daily rapist , but since the landlord has never seen me before I am content to stand there looking serious , like an estate agent with news . |
| 14 | She was so angry that she ordered my father straight out of the house , and he has never seen her since . |
| 15 | Meyer has never seen them . |
| 16 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 17 | ‘ George is over four months old and my father has never seen him , so I ca n't tell you what he thinks , ’ he told Hello ! magazine . |
| 18 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 19 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 20 | Judges have occasionally commented on her melanomas but it has never affected her placing in the show ring . |
| 21 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 22 | Ah , Brian , Brian , David has never met you . |
| 23 | ‘ What nonsense , Jane , rushing off to visit an old lady who has never loved you ! |
| 24 | The acquisition of language — an incredibly daunting task to one who has never heard it and never will — is therefore of crucial importance to a prelingually deaf child without an education which teaches him language his potential capacity and intelligence are forever wasted and he is destined to lead a primitive life appearing mentally defective to a hearing world . |
| 25 | He has given him , and he has never withdrawn him ! |
| 26 | Old Wix , of course , has never forgiven me . |
| 27 | Which has never stopped her charging me painfully large sums . |
| 28 | That interfering old cow has never liked me . |
| 29 | My daughter-in-law has never liked me . |
| 30 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |