Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 2 | Ryan made me promise never to tell you . ’ |
| 3 | I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead . |
| 4 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 5 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 6 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 7 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 8 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |
| 9 | ‘ I imagined he 'd never seen her ! ’ |
| 10 | Ari realised she had never felt this before — not even at home , where time had been her own . |
| 11 | By the end of the meal , made exuberant by his anarchic wit , she realised she had never felt more intensely alive . |
| 12 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 13 | You 're not kidding he certainly ai n't kidding you now now it 's happened to me I know if it ever happened I know never to do it again . |
| 14 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 15 | Even the older villagers claimed they 'd never known anything like it . |
| 16 | More than half of women questioned by Gallup said they never wore make-up , and nine out of 10 claimed they 've never owned a padded bra . |
| 17 | The contents of Steinitz 's attics which the dealer claimed he had never had time to inspect comprising all manner of junk and broken pieces of furniture , occupied the weekend of 23–24 May and visibly left Tajan wishing he had never bothered . |
| 18 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 19 | In an effort to develop a unique sound I stumbled across the very first pattern which I discovered I had never played before . |
| 20 | His search for Tess took him first to Flintcomb-Ash , where he discovered she had never used her married name . |
| 21 | He confessed he had never read this one , given to him by a Parisian admirer . |
| 22 | Britton looking battle-weary after a match in which he was left as Thistle 's lone attacker , a task which he confessed he had never experienced before , admitted he had a fair bit of work to do as a result . |
| 23 | This , according to Wolfgang , would have distinct advantages : it would provide him with a legal outlet for the ‘ voice of nature ’ , which he swore he had never yet indulged , being too honourable either to seduce innocent girls or have dealings with prostitutes ; and a wife would be able to tend his domestic needs — he admitted he was no good at looking after himself . |
| 24 | He swore he had never touched their sheep , and he swore by many Northern oaths that he was in Newcastle up till eleven o'clock on the night of the murders . |
| 25 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 26 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 27 | Made him promise never to eat again or we 'd tie him to a tombstone . |
| 28 | . And erm she goes oh sh he knows your reputation , I mean he not , maybe not by face but erm but he 'll know you , you know , just , he 'll know your reputation or by who you hang around with , I went I 've never done |
| 29 | I still remember him , after all those years , as one of the best-looking men I ever saw I 've never loved anyone in the same way since . |
| 30 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |