Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen all his films except Do Me A Favour ! which funnily enough I 've never managed to catch although it 's on TV all the time . |
| 2 | After all , you make the same unrealistic demands on me sometimes , and I 'm not perfect either — only I 've never confronted you with the unreasonableness of it all . ’ |
| 3 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 4 | Obviously I 've never met him . |
| 5 | so I 've never done anything , but he 's moved and he 's been back and seen us . |
| 6 | You see , with it being twenty foot , so so I 've never seen it fully extended . |
| 7 | So I 've never based myself on any of that , because it 's really just a myth , ’ says Neneh . |
| 8 | So I 've never smoked them , I 've got about a hundred upstairs |
| 9 | I 've never been on the course so I 've never had a police dog . |
| 10 | You know so I mean so I 've never had a , it 's been a bad experience for me , not a good one . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 12 | So I 've never belonged to any physical set . |
| 13 | so I 'd never had blokes in my class , it was really really weird |
| 14 | We have the finest peo band of men looking after our fire service so I have never had any doubt , I did n't really need this report to tell me , but it is nice to see it written down , to see just exactly what they 're doing . |
| 15 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
| 16 | If only she 'd never met him — had never experienced the exquisite sweetness of being held against his heart — she would n't now be crushed under the weight of this unbearable sorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps you 've never crossed her before ? ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps you 've never heard NWA , but you 've almost certainly heard of them . |
| 19 | Perhaps you 've never known them . ’ |
| 20 | Obviously you 've never heard the one about a friend in need . |
| 21 | But obviously you 've never known love . |
| 22 | Only you 've never mentioned him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If only you 'd never married that whore . ’ |
| 24 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 25 | So you 've never seen a baby die ? |
| 26 | So we 've never come as er as quite as close as that . |
| 27 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 28 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 29 | Hunter 's committee clearly thought that Vial on his own could not conduct the course , while Morton 's committee appear to have accepted Vial 's claims regarding appointments which apparently he had never held . |
| 30 | Only he had never minded about Kathleen , the youngest of them . |