Example sentences of "[pron] never did [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | One elderly farmer said : ‘ I never did go much on Princess Diana . |
2 | I never did understand why Blue Peter called their dog Pettibone , did you ? |
3 | They were like Little And Large in a way , but I never did work out which one was the straight man . |
4 | The ASI reads from sixty to 600 knots , To its left a twin-pointer rev-counter has needles marked G and D for gauche and droit , indicating similarly enormous numbers up to 25,000 rpm ( ten times a piston engine 's revs ) — and no , I never did work out which was which without stopping to translate . |
5 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
6 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
7 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
8 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
9 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
10 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
11 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
12 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
13 | Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to . |
14 | You know only right in the middle and we used to jump off the Suspension Bridge regular , some used to dive , but I never did dive there . |
15 | She never did discover how the puddings turned out . |
16 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
17 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
18 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |
19 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
20 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
21 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
22 | ‘ He never did come back to us , ’ said the young man positively . |
23 | He never did get around to framing it . ’ |
24 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
25 | He got out his pills , tipped them out on the table and started counting them — which took absolutely ages because he never did count too well . |
26 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |