Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] never did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 2 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 3 | ‘ So you never did see the bar-tailed lark ? ’ |
| 4 | We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report . |
| 5 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 6 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 7 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 8 | And I never did have . |
| 9 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 10 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 13 | And you never did answer me ! |
| 14 | And you never did come and have a cup . ’ |
| 15 | That 'd be nice to get like , for Teresa , cos she never did get a |
| 16 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 17 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 18 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 19 | It was an interesting idea , but I never did think it would work . ’ |
| 20 | They were like Little And Large in a way , but I never did work out which one was the straight man . |
| 21 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 24 | But we never did walk across the river before or since . ’ |
| 25 | where we were , that they 're going to rebuild , going to build it all the time I was there , but they never did build it , did they ? |
| 26 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 27 | I thought things were going to get pretty heavy for a while , but they never did escalate the way I thought they might . |
| 28 | But he never did tell me what he 'd put on that stick . ’ |
| 29 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 30 | 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 . |