Example sentences of "[pers pn] never [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I never cut them all till about beyond the middle of June . |
2 | And there 's a photograph in th I never told him that |
3 | ‘ I 'm called Breeze , but I never told you that . |
4 | And I 'm sure I never gave her any reason to be so high-and-mighty ! ’ |
5 | ‘ No , she never told me that . |
6 | ‘ Presumably she never told you that either ? |
7 | I 'm sure she never told you that . |
8 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
9 | ‘ You never told me that , Marie . |
10 | ‘ You never told me that ! |
11 | You never told me that ! ’ |
12 | ‘ you never told me this , ’ said Bill plaintively . |
13 | You never told us that ! |
14 | You never told us that before ! ’ |
15 | Duke of Lancaster he is , with every right , and we never denied him that title , and never would . |
16 | It was n't a very dangerous operation , but they never told me that . |
17 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
18 | Unfortunately , they never did it all in one move . |
19 | He never told me any details . ’ |
20 | He never told me those things . |
21 | He never told me this . |
22 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
23 | He never did me any harm . ’ |
24 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
25 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
26 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’ |
27 | But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy . |
28 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |