Example sentences of "he never did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course he never did speak with his tongue nor ever would have done if he wanted to hang on to his job . |
| 2 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 3 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 4 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 5 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 6 | The people in Yoxford said he never did drink no more ! ’ |
| 7 | He never did answer that one . |
| 8 | But he never did tell me what he 'd put on that stick . ’ |
| 9 | Incidentally , he never did baptise my breast with Mississippi water ; the only time a bottle passed between us was when I sent him some Taburel water to stop his hair falling out . |
| 10 | ‘ He never did come back to us , ’ said the young man positively . |
| 11 | He never did get around to framing it . ’ |
| 12 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 13 | He got out his pills , tipped them out on the table and started counting them — which took absolutely ages because he never did count too well . |
| 14 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 15 | Unfortunately Shackleton died whilst still in the Antarctic on 5 January 1922 , and so he never did search for the treasure . |