Example sentences of "[pron] never [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 2 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It was totally demanding , I never seemed to have a free minute . |
| 4 | The baby nest I bought , a sort of quilted bag , was a waste of money because I never seemed to have the opportunity to use it . |
| 5 | I never meant to imply no ‘ anky-panky . ’ |
| 6 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 7 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I never thought to enjoy a book about a foreign country so much ’ — she liked the expatriates , because they lived in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ I never thought to see a Tyrian at my table , but you 're very welcome , sir . ’ |
| 10 | I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless . |
| 11 | I never intended to have a relationship with you . |
| 12 | I never intended to make a scene , but — ’ |
| 13 | By the end of that second night I never wanted to see a chip again . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I never did like the colour . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 17 | Oh , yes , I never did get a chance to fly that big buzzard . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I never did get an answer to that final one . |
| 21 | He had an impish look about him , and the most beguiling manner , a combination which never failed to capture the hearts of all who came into contact with him . |
| 22 | I mean Margaret used to come in and everything was done for her , I mean she never had to do a thing well that hit her terribly you see . |
| 23 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 24 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 25 | But she never seemed to make the connection between these skills and the sickness notes , apparently in parents ' hands , which her pupils brought to school after prolonged absences of two or three weeks . |
| 26 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 27 | She did n't have either the time or the inclination to hold ‘ receptions ’ — whatever they might be — but when she returned home at night , exhausted from her day in the City , she never failed to appreciate the deep sense of peaceful calm and serenity of the large , thickly carpeted room . |
| 28 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 29 | She never forgot to get the hen-food and she could shoot straight , even with her knobbled hands . |
| 30 | She never wanted to spend an hour like that again . |