Example sentences of "[adv] they never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they never see God at all . |
| 2 | They 've got two fire stations , but all the houses are so far away they never get there in time . |
| 3 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 4 | And although he had promised they would return to the seaside house , somehow they never had . |
| 5 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 6 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 7 | South bound trains on the Settle and Carlisle stop several times a day ; North bound uniquely they never stop at all . |
| 8 | I do not , in general , belong to the they-don't-make-'em-like-that-any-more brigade , because mostly they never did . |
| 9 | Well they never threatened any action on the manufacturing side , they you know the manufacturing side did n't . |
| 10 | Well they never make things er bombproof do they ? |
| 11 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 12 | Frequently they never arrived . |
| 13 | Fortunately they never did , as the nearest medical care was in Abidjan , 600km away — though of course we had a stock of medical books and instruments in case . |
| 14 | I 'm covered in a fine glossy sheen of drying mud so maybe they never got a good grip in the first place . |
| 15 | Sometimes sometimes they never ring back at all ever . |
| 16 | then they never let me know , and as you know , er it , it costs money to sort of er , put a meal on |
| 17 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 18 | But when the war came you see they came as evacuees a lot of them and then they never went back . |
| 19 | He does n't look like an axe killer , but then they never do . |
| 20 | Then they never turned up so now he 's got his cooker and his sink , goodness knows what in his , in his garage . |
| 21 | At least they never pretended to be pure . |
| 22 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 23 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 24 | yet they never stayed up in Scotland cos there was nothing to bloody do . |
| 25 | There must be thousands of cases of rape or child-abuse — apart from what the security forces are up to — but again they never get talked about . |
| 26 | I think that they may be frightened to speak up and that they 're scared that if they say something that they do n't know , like a lot of them do n't know the facts , like today , in the same class as Janine across there , some of them did n't know even the very the pro , progression of the male pill or anything like that , and they did learn a few things but a again they never spoke up and they were n't interested , but I |
| 27 | Often the outcome is so rewarding , managers wonder why they never thought of doing it before . |
| 28 | ‘ I think one reason why they never married was that Uncle Phil would n't have asked her . |
| 29 | Wondering why they never write back . |
| 30 | I do n't know why they never have Easter |