Example sentences of "[pron] never do [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 2 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 3 | I never did like those open topped buses . |
| 4 | I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I never did trust that new Mayor Mutton nor none of his creatures neither , ’ said she . |
| 6 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |
| 7 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 8 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 9 | We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one . |
| 10 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 11 | He never did answer that one . |
| 12 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 13 | ‘ Righty ho , ’ I replied , for it never does to show these people how frightened you are of them , ‘ do come in . ’ |