Example sentences of "never [vb pp] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Conditions were a disgrace in the second half , ’ said McLean who has never hidden his hatred of a strong wind . |
| 2 | A MUCH-PRAISED AMERICAN playwright , John Guare has never received his due in this country — not , I think , because his comedies do n't appeal to the English sense of humour but because it 's difficult for actors here to get across their vision of insane optimism and everyday insanity . |
| 3 | Has never withdrawn his support since . |
| 4 | I 've never heard his surname , he 's just little Nick as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 5 | And why have I never heard his name before ? |
| 6 | She had never heard his name . |
| 7 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 8 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |
| 9 | He is dead now , but I 've never forgotten his description of how he had felt as the German bombers came in from Norway , picking the scattered merchant ships off , the sound of the bombs , and the cold , always the cold . |
| 10 | ‘ It would , of course , ’ Theda agreed , able even in the pain he had caused her to understand now why Benedict had never trusted his godmother . |
| 11 | For Ashcroft Noble had never forbidden his study to children , and Helen later recalled seeing Edward at the end of a visit still standing by a bookcase and reluctant to leave . |
| 12 | It had been no hardship to sit and talk horses with her by the hour but he certainly had never expected his friendship to be so handsomely rewarded . |
| 13 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 14 | Er you never met his wife ? |
| 15 | Joshua did not think that ‘ Worthy ’ Evans was the sort to stray , but then he had never met his secretary . |
| 16 | Lee had inherited a little of his father 's Oriental patience — although he had never met his father , who had apparently run one of the infamous Opium Dens in Whitechapel — and was quite content to sit , absorb the heat , and listen to the soft ticking and creaking as the house settled , content in his own company . |
| 17 | I only wish I 'd never accepted his ring … |
| 18 | The current art editor has never seen his work . |
| 19 | His work in Peking has now been published in book form , and will hopefully be given the critical accolades it so undoubtedly deserves , but that will be small consolation for a man who may never seen his homeland again . |
| 20 | He 'd never seen his mother or his father reading it , but once he had opened it himself . |
| 21 | Hawk had read about him in the newsfax , but rarely watched teevee , and so had never seen his face before . |
| 22 | He shook his head , not understanding , knowing only that he had never seen his father sleeping . |
| 23 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 24 | But he 'd never had his leg over , not once in all those years . |
| 25 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 26 | The sight of them would be enough to give designers of air balls , gels and energy return systems the jitters , and although he has never measured his mileage , he estimated he had run at least 25,000 miles in them , and possibly more ! |
| 27 | ‘ James , ’ she cried , forgetting that she had never used his name before . |
| 28 | He repeated it wonderingly as though the thought had never crossed his mind . |
| 29 | And George Markham had never shirked his duty . |
| 30 | His father certainly never replaced his mother 's love . |