Example sentences of "never [verb] in [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never fought in his life . |
| 2 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 3 | I have never heard in my life such a noise . |
| 4 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 5 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 6 | With the current retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art , which runs until 14 February , 1993 , the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat has received the attention that even this highly promoted artist never got in his lifetime . |
| 7 | had never wept in your life . |
| 8 | But you never believed in her Will , did you ? |
| 9 | Jean de Vaubrun rode to Edinburgh from France in the autumn of 1792 [ or possibly 1793 ] , never pausing in his search for the woman he loved . |
| 10 | He felt drugged , by her perfume and her presence ; he felt … like he had never felt in his life before . |
| 11 | ‘ The artist ’ , she said , ‘ is never accepted in her time . ’ |
| 12 | Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life . |
| 13 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 14 | Louis looked at the boy whom he had clearly never seen in his life . |
| 15 | The FA are aware of Souness 's comments , particularly about referee Brian Hill , whom he accused of letting ‘ things go on which I 've never seen in my time back in England ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ There are some conditions here I 've never seen in my career or am ever likely to see again , ’ says one of the group 's doctors . |
| 17 | Unless you focus closely on the problem , you 'll never succeed in your research or writing . |
| 18 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 19 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 20 | He is said to have never smiled in his life . |
| 21 | He looked as though he 'd never smiled in his life . |
| 22 | I should have realised that from the fact that Micky said ‘ Oh Lord ’ — an expression , incidentally , that was n't in the script of the play and that he had never used in his life — before he turned round from the Hooded Owl and looked into the wings . |
| 23 | ( He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life . ) |
| 24 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 25 | Friendships made in this country were warmly reciprocated by the Silvers in their beautiful old house in Mt Vernon Street in Boston , where they lived an elegant and ‘ simple ’ life : they never owned a car , and never cooked in their kitchen ; all meals except breakfast were eaten in restaurants . |
| 26 | Why , Mamma , I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've never implored in your life , ’ Ruth murmured , resting her wet head on his shirt for a second before pulling away and perching on the edge of the lounger . |
| 28 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 29 | He would tease , too — telling people that Rogers sat all day in his office , counting the money , except on the occasions he made forays to location ‘ wearing a pair of green wellies ’ — which Rogers maintains , ‘ I have never worn in my life ’ . |
| 30 | In C. S. Lewis ' quest for joy , we can clearly see that the void left by his mother 's death was never replaced in his childhood , nor indeed perhaps ever in his whole life . |