Example sentences of "he never [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What right did they have , that lot , getting you to think about how bloody life was , sitting in this poky flat with Ted always so tired he never played with Frieda or talked to herself and fell asleep straight after having it off . |
| 2 | He never lived in Eaton Square again . |
| 3 | He had done well for himself Yet he never escaped from Aldeborough in the spirit , and it was the making of him as a poet . |
| 4 | She knew that her father had two sisters , although he never kept in touch with them . |
| 5 | He never listened to radio news in the mornings , and in the evenings he usually turned his chair away from the television set , so that he could read . |
| 6 | Anyway he never walked from P'nzance , not like he was . |
| 7 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
| 8 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 9 | Bob Fitzsimmons , known as ‘ Fitz ’ in boxing circles , was the only English world heavyweight champion , though he never fought in England . |
| 10 | He never ate between breakfast and sunset , but could not last without tea until the meal he clearly still found extraordinary , eaten by wax candlelight in the dining-room at an hour when all his shepherds were asleep . |
| 11 | He never asked for forgiveness . |
| 12 | He never asked for money . |
| 13 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 14 | Associated with this , I feel , was the fact that he never suffered from jet-lag . |
| 15 | He never worried about scripts , either , according to Rogers . |
| 16 | He never took into account that Eddie did n't really want to make a career as a racing driver — ’ |
| 17 | Once asleep , he never woke before morning . |
| 18 | Very gentle — he never got into fights , with me or anyone else ; and he 'd play with me for hours . |
| 19 | He never came to trial for the robbery at the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society in Quedgeley , Gloucester . |
| 20 | He never came to terms with losing her , or the fact that people he 'd trusted cheated him . ’ |
| 21 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 22 | He never went to court because they said I was too young to give evidence . |
| 23 | He never went to bed without making sure that every single appliance had been switched off . |
| 24 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 25 | ‘ He never went near Longner that night . |
| 26 | He never peed in front of other men . |
| 27 | There is a story in La Scala that a very good singer once opened the door of a room where the maestro was preparing a lady for a little love-making , and he never worked for Toscanini again . |
| 28 | He never talked of Maisie , nor of that night , and whenever Cissie broached the subject of their mam , his reaction was violent . |
| 29 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 30 | Regardless of all his achievements and fame , he never changed in attitude and throughout his years until his retirement remained loyal to Balmoral Golf Club in Belfast . |