Example sentences of "[pron] never [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I never got beyond page two this morning . ’
2 I do n't know why I never drove at home .
3 And then , I never went to sleep but I went sleepy but not did n't actually sleep .
4 Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five .
5 That 's how it was , I never went to school proper .
6 And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen .
7 I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’
8 ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together .
9 I never went near Boundary Drive , ’ repeated Marcus , a little recovered now .
10 Yes , I was aware of him , but I never managed to lassoo him .
11 I never knew in advance when the next meeting would be .
12 Incredible as it may seem , I never thought about sex at all , and did n't even masturbate : starvation reduces libido .
13 I never thought of nigger brown as being an offensive remark .
14 I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family .
15 I began to understand him a little The rubber clothing , for example , I never saw as part of his own sexual fantasy world , but as part of the fascination he had with all secret worlds .
16 I never milked by hand it was always the machine .
17 I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all .
18 In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father .
19 My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all .
20 But she never lied to Star . "
21 And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing .
22 Like most of the other women in the refuge , she never went on holiday after she was married , never went to the pictures and rarely went out .
23 Well she never got in contact with me again .
24 Yesterday , once again , she never looked in danger of making a mistake and her rider was able to push her along fast enough to win by more than three seconds .
25 You never went to university !
26 Always told yer mother you never went to bed early enough . ’
27 You never heard of inflation ? "
28 ‘ But you never got in touch with me after I left … ’
29 Again , it is interesting to note that the Japanese , who never succumbed to jade or to any notable degree to gold , are now in their days of increasing wealth choosing platinum for their diamond rings .
30 Two campaigners , an Englishman and a Frenchman , brushed away tears as they recalled 453 airmen who never returned from World War 2 sorties .
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