Example sentences of "[pron] never did [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oh , I never did like the colour . ’
2 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 .
3 Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge !
4 ‘ 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 ‘ So you never did see the bar-tailed lark ? ’
7 Of course , you never did read the small print .
8 We never did crack the watch smuggling racket .
9 They never did find the bottom half .
10 I thought things were going to get pretty heavy for a while , but they never did escalate the way I thought they might .
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