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 . |