Example sentences of "that [pers pn] never [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I saw men kissing and holding and loving each other ; something that I never thought possible as the mainstream culture manifests itself in overwhelmingly heterosexual and macho terms . |
| 2 | Menstruation was not mentioned then , or at any other time , so it is hardly surprising , if rather bizarre , that I never made any conscious connection between it and normal sexual functioning . |
| 3 | Disarmament Subcommittee said ‘ We have made an advance that I never dreamed possible . ’ |
| 4 | My early introduction to the world of politics was always marginal in the sense that I never felt able to join any particular political party . |
| 5 | Oh I have no doubt of course I never I despise the woman so heartily that I never ask any questions about it . |
| 6 | I 'm glad I 'm out and I 'm glad that I never see some of them bloody people again |
| 7 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
| 8 | I 'd like to think that I never give poor care to any patient for political reasons , ’ he mused somewhat pompously , ‘ but I 'm certainly not above giving extra good care to the wife of an important man like Bill ! ’ |
| 9 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 10 | The difference is that she never felt guilty about it , whereas I , who have devoured baby and child books since my first pregnancy test was positive , do . |
| 11 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds lousy , but the great advantage to Celeste — and the reason why our relationship survived for as long as it did — was that she never had much of an impact on either my feelings or my thoughts . |
| 13 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 14 | In the spring of the following year , 1957 , Marie-Ande Roussain , Edouard de Chavigny 's senior secretary , a young woman of considerable ability and renowned for the fact that she never became flustered , called Edouard in his office . |
| 15 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
| 16 | You will probably tell me that you never had 1,000 farthings of your own in the world , but , prisoner , that makes no difference . |
| 17 | You always say that you never get two children the same , they 're |
| 18 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 19 | It moved over to the north before it reached the camp , so that we never heard much of the thunder . |
| 20 | The fact that we never sold any records and loads of rotten indie music is our fault has nothing to do with it ! |
| 21 | at the start , but as things went on , and just the fact that we never had any talks between the union and the management . |
| 22 | A constant problem with promoting all four gardens is that we never have enough leaflets to supply all the outlets that request them . |
| 23 | But you ca n't con you ca n't persuade those chaps at the north pole that they never get any frost you know , you see ? |
| 24 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 26 | Distrust can then rise to the level of terror if cats are subsequently greatly avoided , so that they never become familiar to the growing child . |
| 27 | An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting . |
| 28 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 29 | That it never seems boring is due first , of course , to the richness of the youthful Mozart 's music ; but given the fantastical convolutions of the story even that might not be enough . |
| 30 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |