Example sentences of "[pron] never did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I never did see 46202 , either in Turbomotive , or in rebuilt ‘ normal ’ guise , as , prior to its untimely demise at Harrow in 11952 , it was used exclusively on Liverpool Lime Street to Euston services . |
| 32 | I never did glimpse the queen , but somewhere inside that boiling ball she was , the central data bank , the repository of the master DNA of the whole colony . |
| 33 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 34 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
| 35 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 36 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
| 37 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 38 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 39 | I never did find Higon Cussi . |
| 40 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 41 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 42 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 43 | I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’ |
| 44 | I never did get an answer to that final one . |
| 45 | ‘ He saved me from a fate worse than death , and it was all over so quick I never did get the chance to thank him properly . ’ |
| 46 | Oh , yes , I never did get a chance to fly that big buzzard . |
| 47 | I never did get to the end of the universe . |
| 48 | Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to . |
| 49 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 50 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 51 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
| 52 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 53 | ‘ I never did trust that new Mayor Mutton nor none of his creatures neither , ’ said she . |
| 54 | I never did trust Berndt 's planning . ’ |
| 55 | I never did believe that , as the coroner seemed to think , because of one of her mental lapses Grandma had gone out into the garden in her nightie and just fallen into the stream by mistake . |
| 56 | And I 've said this er I 've said this in week to the civil service unions , I never did believe in lobbying Parliament . |
| 57 | ‘ I never did believe it , ’ he assured her . |
| 58 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 59 | You know only right in the middle and we used to jump off the Suspension Bridge regular , some used to dive , but I never did dive there . |
| 60 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |