Example sentences of "he never [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIEGO MARADONA last night bowed to the supreme talent of Paul Gascoigne and urged him never to lose his individuality . |
| 2 | She walked round him , but he never raised his head . |
| 3 | He never drove his car if he was having any drink with his lunch . |
| 4 | He never sold his day 's OTC quota , and so his leader would shout : " You 'll soon be back on the fucking training floor . " |
| 5 | But he never kept his word . |
| 6 | He never rejoined his party . ’ |
| 7 | He never knew his father , his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars . |
| 8 | He never saw his pursuer , though occasionally he heard it snuffling behind him . |
| 9 | He never saw his father again . |
| 10 | He never wore his turban at home , which always gave Hoomey a jolt of surprise , seeing the knee-length black hair coiled on top of his head , skewered in place with a comb . |
| 11 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 12 | He never asked her name . |
| 13 | Maybe his life in Attleborough afforded him insulation from the rigours of inner city life , but he never understood his colour to be an obstacle . |
| 14 | And he never turns his back to me . |
| 15 | Luke tells you what to do all the time , but quietly , and he never loses his temper , except if he thinks you 're not toying . |
| 16 | ‘ I notice he never took his coat off and helped . ’ |
| 17 | Old Mahu was on duty , and he never left his shelter by the main gate , once he was sure that everyone was asleep . |
| 18 | Now , but he forgot to tell the police so unfortunately for p poor old Bill he never got his name in history . |
| 19 | He never got his way . |
| 20 | He was a great doctor , a super man but he never stamped his authority on the board , ’ said one former colleague . |
| 21 | But they are being rather generous ; whatever Beccaria may have privately thought or hinted at , he never developed his position on these matters . |
| 22 | He had become a naturalized Englishman , but he never carried his anglophilia to the point of being puritan , or even respectable . |
| 23 | My book shows that Modigliani was not that gloomy pessimist of morbid temperament who ‘ destroyed himself with as much care as he put into constructing his talent ’ , but that he never doubted his worth nor the imminence of success . |
| 24 | Though he never disguised his leadership ambitions , he continued to deny that it was his intention to challenge the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | He never changed his opinion ; he loved every minute up here . |
| 26 | He never gives his name , and he always asks for the same dedication . |
| 27 | My father , on the other hand , never went to church though he never denigrated my mother 's choice and approved of his children being raised as God-fearing . |
| 28 | The children 's abiding memory of their father is his patience and thoroughness : he never lost his temper , and all tasks were thought out and executed with minute attention to detail . |
| 29 | Corbett told polic that he never lost his temper with the child and never smacked her . |
| 30 | He always felt that effective musical criticism began by being well written , and he never lost his liveliness . |