Example sentences of "[pers pn] never [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never thanked you for taking me out today , ’ she said quietly , looking up at him . |
| 2 | " I never use it for hunting , " he said as he wrestled with the mechanism . |
| 3 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 4 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 5 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 6 | ‘ I never took you for a person who constantly changes her mind , Fran . ’ |
| 7 | I appreciate you 're a very clever woman , but then I never took you for a fool . |
| 8 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 9 | Oh I never cook them for twenty , twenty to twenty five minutes it would be a disaster . |
| 10 | But I never wanted it for myself , in spite of what everyone thought . |
| 11 | ‘ I never forget it for a minute , ’ said Gabriel . |
| 12 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 13 | She stood by him , she never reproached him for his failings , and at times he felt even worse because she was so forbearing . |
| 14 | She , she does she once , she never let me in the pass , she never let me for my birthday . |
| 15 | She never let me for my birthday . |
| 16 | However , she never forgave him for failing to fulfil her expectations later . |
| 17 | And you never meant it for my ears , that 's sure . |
| 18 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 19 | But I say ‘ must have ’ without real evidence : he never reproached me for my action . |
| 20 | He never leaves it for long , so we 'll sit on this tree trunk and await his return . ’ |
| 21 | And he never forgive me for this you see because he were a big noise you know , he he 'd got a big business in . |
| 22 | And he told me , he told me , I 've got it written on the back of me hand I thought it was brilliant that , I thought little do you know what I 'm gon na use that for he never phoned me for a , he 's not phoned me for |