Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
| 2 | His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition . |
| 3 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 4 | He also hit out about his departure from Upton Park saying : ‘ West Ham never showed me the door . |
| 5 | ‘ She never sent me a Christmas card or a present . |
| 6 | We could n't review it ‘ coz US Gold never sent us a copy , but most of the games are featured in Phil 's Issue 88 sports roundup . |
| 7 | Ossie Ardiles gave me a lot of games and said I was doing well , but he never offered me a contract . |
| 8 | But you may be able to complain to a tribunal that you have been discriminated against on the grounds of sex or race , even if the company concerned never offered you a job . |
| 9 | You never brought me a loaf either Johnny . |
| 10 | ‘ It never did me no harm . |
| 11 | ‘ He left my mother when I was four and never gave her a penny after that . ’ |
| 12 | He never gave her the chance . |
| 13 | You never gave me a receipt . |
| 14 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 15 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 16 | ‘ She would n't have shopped me ; and she never gave me the tape . |
| 17 | I never gave him a chance to explain — to tell me his side of things . |
| 18 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 19 | They never gave us a chance with Stephen . |
| 20 | True , I 'd had trouble with nightmares the two nights following the accident , but the medicine which Doctor Keylock brought sorted that out , and afterwards I never gave it a thought . |
| 21 | I never gave it a glance . ’ |
| 22 | Oh perhaps I never had it a man came here , from somebody or other double glazing |
| 23 | The bastard never left her a thing . |
| 24 | Honey , when we was happy never wrote me a page |