Example sentences of "she never [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all . |
| 2 | At the same time , she never swayed from her view that Jane 's photography had great artistic integrity and supported her within the company whatever the criticism . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Henrietta , smiling meaninglessly , confirming Liz 's view that she never listened to a word that Liz said to her . |
| 4 | I always told your aunt it was too big for you and that you would never be able to manage it , but she never listened to me . " |
| 5 | She never walked on the beach , and without ever thinking about it he had assumed she did n't because she did n't want to spoil her shoes . |
| 6 | But she never lied to Star . " |
| 7 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 8 | She never recovered from the demise of Britain 's first fascist organization and died a year later . |
| 9 | Eccles died weeks before the ceremony , however , and she never recovered from the ‘ irrevocable blow ’ . |
| 10 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 11 | During her too short life she never ceased to be Anglican ; but she was a Socialist , and a suffragette , and religion for her came to mean , not so much creed or piety , as having a lively social conscience . |
| 12 | She never returned from that mission ; it is believed that an explosion took place while she was directly over the site of the volcano . |
| 13 | But she never remonstrated with er Len his name was , she never i , remonstrated with him . |
| 14 | Because she never had to be his lover in front of Maggie or Rachel she had no need to worry about that either . |
| 15 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 16 | She never seemed to be in a very good position to bargain from , somehow . |
| 17 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 18 | Secondly , she never lived to middle age . |
| 19 | Well she never realized till today . |
| 20 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 21 | She never waited to be asked ; she came straight forward and spoke . |
| 22 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 23 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 24 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 25 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 26 | And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing . |
| 27 | She never tired of seeing a sunset or a flock of geese , and even in her nineties she still marvelled at the beauty of the sea or the quality of light in Dumfriesshire . |
| 28 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 29 | He still did n't know whose side to take when Mum carried on at us but she never came to the shed while we were chopping wood with him , so we had a retreat . |
| 30 | She was saying things like ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ 'doesn t make sense ’ , hut she never came to the point at all . ’ |