Example sentences of "he never [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Surrey he never received his deserved recognition for his contribution to cricket . |
| 2 | He never said anything special to me , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He never knew what these special things were and tried to find out by sneaking down there at night , but the shed door was always locked . |
| 4 | For all his claims to the contrary , his surface romance with immortality , Ali had a spooky bead on his future ; he never saw it sweeping grandly towards him , but bellying quietly along the jungle floor . |
| 5 | They had three daughters , but he never saw his third daughter ; she was born in Canada after the upheavals of the civil war and the Japanese invasion of China had persuaded Liddell to send his pregnant wife and young children to safety in 1941 . |
| 6 | He never had his own desk on principle , as he said all desks had chains attached . |
| 7 | He never told me any details . ’ |
| 8 | He never told me those things . |
| 9 | He never told me this . |
| 10 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 11 | SAMUEL RESHEVSKY , the Polish-born chess player who has died in New York aged 80 , was a celebrated child prodigy , though he never fulfilled his early promise . |
| 12 | Despite this cosmopolitan background he never forgot his humble origins in Ragusa , and proudly affirmed his Slav language and culture when mistakenly referred to as an Italian . |
| 13 | His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein . |
| 14 | He never did me any harm . ’ |
| 15 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
| 17 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’ |
| 18 | Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny ! |