Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | The reason why our homes were so cold was that the people who designed them never took our severe winter climate into consideration . |
| 4 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 5 | Pte Lee Clegg ( 22 ) , who denies murdering 18-year-old Karen Reilly and her friend Martin Peake ( 17 ) , maintained he never fired into the rear of the stolen Vauxhall Astra in which Miss Reilly was a back-seat passenger . |
| 6 | But he was resented by long memories in those who had fought a war ; by Churchill 's men for weakening the morale of the Air Force through his attacks on area bombing ; by the school of Lord Vansittart which loathed Germans and said that Nazis were typical of that race , and hated a bishop who told them never to identify the true Germany with Hitler . |
| 7 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 8 | ‘ Ray told me never to lose my individuality , always to believe in what I did best . |
| 9 | The German Friends of the Earth 's people told me never to do the washing on Monday mornings . |
| 10 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 11 | As her parting shot she told me never to phone her at this time of the night again . |
| 12 | ‘ I told you never to come here ! ’ |
| 13 | Mother always told you never to laugh at other people 's misfortunes . |
| 14 | Hugh Cudlipp , the newspaper baron who launched her on her career , advised her never to say how old she was . |
| 15 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 16 | He chased the customer down the road and told him never to come in the shop again — that was the way Ron was ! |
| 17 | He 'd he never liked it . |
| 18 | Helping herself , Daisy noticed he never took his eyes off the play and was now turning on the windscreen wipers to watch a dark-haired boy coax a fat roan pony down the field . |
| 19 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 20 | Soon as the royal visitor had gone , he called us in and told us never to do such a thing again . |
| 21 | Well , hippies — they told us never to trust them , did n't they ? |
| 22 | A staggering 42 per cent of men under 45 claimed they NEVER cook . |
| 23 | We had a party a party for the kids in Aberystwyth on Saturday , but all the students paid it never cost us a halfpenny . |
| 24 | It was only half way back to Darlington that we realised we never had learned why Bobby Orton walked off against Burnhope . |
| 25 | This disturbing event proved to be of great significance , since it taught me never to allow ideas to become rooted in the mind . |
| 26 | But my mother taught me never to give up . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He taught me never to look first at the things you want to buy . |
| 28 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd assume the trapsetter had been a guest at Sam Yaeger 's boatyard party , ’ I said , ‘ only you warned me never to assume . ’ |
| 30 | One of those oaths bound him never to return to Earth , never to revisit the headquarters of the Inquisition , nor the even more elusive bastion of the Ordo Malleus . |