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 .
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