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Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) .
2	Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter .
3	Bunny and Martin wandered over with more drinks but Dod never made it past the darts game .
4	Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show .
5	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 .
6	And in fact they never made it to the man 's house in the country that night , because Boy made him stop the car twice more .
7	In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust .
8	Then the album came out about six months later and there was no track — the track never made it to the album !
9	If London did n't go as you 'd hoped — perhaps you never made it to the end — a float will help you put things into perspective and will leave you feeling more positive .
10	And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar .
11	Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way .
12	Alas , Townshend 's monster Hiwatt never made it onto the House Of Love album .
13	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 .
14	I never used it in the like people put it in the till .
15	She never invited him to the jolly ones .
16	I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage .
17	We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone .
18	‘ However , although like any attractive red-blooded man he 's had his share of romances , apparently he did n't regard any of them as long-term for he never sealed them with the ring . ’
19	She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away .
20	Strange , I never told him about the horrors of Maubisson . )
21	I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins .
22	You never even , you never told me about the one
23	Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters .
24	He never contacted her during the times they were apart , so perhaps he was able to divorce his professional life from his sex life , compartmentalising them in a way she could n't .
25	Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face .
26	Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place .
27	Her eyes are mud-coloured ; her eyes changed hue according to the contact lenses she wore ; he never looked her in the eye .
28	She never associated him with the missing lad till she saw the picture .
29	But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick .
30	The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing .