Example sentences of "never [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I never agreed to buy these shares at that price . |
| 2 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 3 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 4 | But he never tried to take any food from the other children . |
| 5 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 6 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't believe that I never stopped to think that Amber , four , was in the room , too , when I started punching her father , ’ Gail recalls . |
| 8 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |
| 9 | Paula certainly never seemed to encounter such problems . |
| 10 | The only wooden stairs that never seemed to make any noise were those inch-thick slabs in modern public buildings ; house stairs always took pleasure in announcing to everybody what you were doing . |
| 11 | We never seemed to have much trouble anyway . |
| 12 | He was a legit , braceleted , but he never seemed to have any money , and somehow he seemed to avoid the gangs , legit and illegit , that roamed the upper Levels . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 14 | Sammy slept under the navigator 's table and never seemed to have any reaction to the gyration of the aircraft or the attention of the natives with their flak and fighters outside . |
| 15 | Poor old Finland they never seemed to get many points did they ? |
| 16 | Though his downy feathers were beginning to strengthen , he felt weak and vulnerable , for he never seemed to get enough food , or be able to beat off the brutal and painful pecks of his sibling from whom , by some ancient lore of eagles , his parents did not protect him . |
| 17 | He managed the first two but his love of a big fried breakfast at his home in Lytham St Annes , meant he never managed to lose much weight . |
| 18 | He managed the first two but his love of a big fried breakfast meant he never managed to lose much weight . |
| 19 | In spite of their proximity , I never managed to fish these lochs . |
| 20 | Ewing lamented his failure to learn Gaelic , and he never managed to train enough priests who did . |
| 21 | I never thought to see such nastiness , not even serving the Gruagach , I did n't . |
| 22 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 23 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 24 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 25 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 26 | ‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you . |
| 27 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 28 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 29 | Never did like that group … |
| 30 | Hence he never bothered to devote much time to Spanish affairs ; wishful thinking and ignorance exposed his views on the value of Spain to a series of disillusionments . |