Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I never met anyone with that name , I 'm very sure of that . |
| 2 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 3 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 4 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 5 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 6 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 7 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 8 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 9 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 10 | I never found anybody with any trouble ever having any trouble with it . |
| 11 | My previous astonishment at the fact that people who came here like De Michelis [ the former foreign secretary ] , or like ex-Prime Minister Andreotti , never endowed us with any money is now diminished . |
| 12 | and somebody says , Well the girl you know he says you never call you you never told him about that . |
| 13 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 14 | He almost never called her darling and he certainly never kissed her in public , but there was a feeling in the air that he could n't understand . |
| 15 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |
| 16 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 17 | As it turned out , Mr. Wickstead , although very fond of Richard , never taught him at all ! |
| 18 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 19 | I never loved him at all , Angel . |
| 20 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |
| 21 | She never wore it with ordinary patients . |
| 22 | I never meant it like that , no , you do n't go to the same you wanker |
| 23 | I never meant anything like that . |
| 24 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 25 | He never thought anything like that would happen . |
| 26 | ‘ You never took her to that hole , Vic ? ’ |
| 27 | I never saw nothing of that Miss Baird , only Mr Forbes standing there like he says , and Jessie right beside him . ’ |
| 28 | I never saw him after that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And you never saw him after that ? ’ |
| 30 | he never saw them at all , no . |