Example sentences of "never [vb past] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 2 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
| 3 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 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 | Never did find out what they had against him . ’ |
| 6 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 7 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 10 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 11 | They never did find the bottom half . |
| 12 | I never did find Higon Cussi . |
| 13 | They never did find Nisodemus again , even though a party of strong-stomached nomes went back much later and searched through the ruts and the mud . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 16 | We never did find his house did we ? |
| 17 | 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 |