Example sentences of "never [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never shared her inner thoughts with anyone , not even her friends at school who had come to regard her as something of an enigma . |
| 2 | As I seek after truth , so shall I always be glad to receive any information from my friends , even if they should contradict what I may have published , yet I shall never think it derogatory to my character to own my mistakes , and rectify them . |
| 3 | With the stigma of a life-ban hanging over him , his club form never realised its early potential and he now works as a storeman on an off-shore oil rig . |
| 4 | Gad I never realised what Total War really meant until this moment … ’ |
| 5 | And Mr Blakey promised the people of Castlemorton that hippies would never invade their Common again . |
| 6 | I never realized what good fun fishing was . |
| 7 | He was soon posted to north Africa , and never met their only child , a daughter born 8 June 1941 . |
| 8 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 9 | A little voice inside her whispered that Luke had never intended his generous words to be taken literally . |
| 10 | Without these simple things as a foundation you would never build anything positive at all ’ |
| 11 | Jenna had never heard her own name said with so much accusation and all she could do was nod her head , words sticking in her throat at the blast of displeasure in the dark voice . |
| 12 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 13 | ‘ Often , operatives who are self-taught or who have minimal instruction will use the equipment for a very limited range of tasks , never realising its full potential . |
| 14 | Private pilots who have never flown anything bigger than a C172 or a Warrior could without trouble convince themselves they were sitting on the flight deck of an airliner . |
| 15 | ‘ You never got her full name ? ’ |
| 16 | Oh we got some this year , we never got none last year |
| 17 | no , we never got it right , what were the answers on that ? |
| 18 | We never got it straight but he was a good MD . |
| 19 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 20 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |
| 21 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 22 | Despite this , Moseley 's skills never made him rich . |
| 23 | Though Plato never made it explicit that Thoth , the inventor of science , was identical with Hermes , the identification is stated by Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Hecataeus of Abdera ( Stobaeus 1 , Prooem. 6 , p. 20 Wachsmuth = Aristoxenus fr. 23 Wehrli ; Diodorus 1.16 ) . |
| 24 | It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it . |
| 25 | She had never given him any reason to feel suspicious , and she certainly never encouraged any impropriety with the carmen and dockers who came regularly into the dining rooms . |
| 26 | I 've never given her enough sympathy . |
| 27 | Blanche realised that Robert had never given her any other . |
| 28 | I ca n't , I hate being sick , I can never make myself sick . |
| 29 | ‘ You might own this place , Miguel , and you might have the right to stand where you like on it , but you 'll never make me pleased to see you ever again . |
| 30 | She was n't tall and she was slightly heavy , but she had a pleasing face with soft eyes ; perhaps she 'd never be a beauty , but age would never make her ugly either . |