Example sentences of "she never [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never takes a lesson without that . |
| 2 | But my mum was London now , she never had a London accent . |
| 3 | She never had a chance to grow up , either . ’ |
| 4 | She never had a career as such . |
| 5 | Probably because she never had a father at home to look up to — ’ She broke off , biting her lip , knowing she was saying too much and ashamed at her loquacity . |
| 6 | I have seen many cartoons of American grandmothers in rocking chairs on their front porches and am always reminded of Mrs. Burden , although she never had a clay pipe in her mouth . |
| 7 | The launch of the Agatha Christie Society will put an end to one of her biggest mysteries — why she never had a fan club . |
| 8 | She never said a word . |
| 9 | In her thirty-two years of office , she never accepted a salary . |
| 10 | Let's hope she never becomes a pilot . |
| 11 | When she was fed ‘ goodies ’ on a flat hand , she never left a crumb . |
| 12 | She told me , she never saw a man so pleased by a glass of wine . |
| 13 | To this end she never wasted a word or gesture and when she saw Wexford she neither greeted him nor even lifted her head , but said to one of her little girls : |
| 14 | She never wasted a gesture or a movement . |
| 15 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 16 | She never got a phone call about that job |
| 17 | ‘ She never lifted a finger to help me before . |
| 18 | you can laugh , she never lifted a fork or a plate off the table . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's enough that we hiv Phillis , she never forgets a face . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 21 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 22 | She never moved a finger . ’ |
| 23 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 24 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 25 | Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium . |
| 26 | Daddy sits a lot , doing nothing and muttering to himself and Mummy 's just retreated — she never starts a conversation , or asks a question , or — You 'd think they 'd be over-anxious about me , their one remaining child and perhaps they are , but they have miserable ways of showing it . |
| 27 | She never buys a paper and never goes out for the evening . |
| 28 | She never turned a hair . |
| 29 | And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . |
| 30 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |