Example sentences of "[pron] never did [vb infin] out " in BNC.
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1 | They were like Little And Large in a way , but I never did work out which one was the straight man . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
9 | 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 |
10 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |