Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never asked for money . |
| 2 | He never asked for forgiveness . |
| 3 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 4 | He never peed in front of other men . |
| 5 | You 'll never got to Heaven . |
| 6 | I never got beyond page two this morning . ’ |
| 7 | The wind , most unusually , never got above Force 3 . |
| 8 | Well she never got in contact with me again . |
| 9 | ‘ But you never got in touch with me after I left … ’ |
| 10 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | JTR never referred to world events . |
| 13 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 14 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |
| 15 | In the midst of fraught domestic politics and Anglo-papal aggravations , Bubwith was twice translated in reshuffles in 1407 , first to Salisbury ( which he never visited as bishop ) and then to Bath and Wells , not unwillingly . |
| 16 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 17 | The latter example also shows the inversion of the subject and verb in the source marker — a form never found in conversation . |
| 18 | The prize for suspicions that never hardened into knowledge belonged to Craig Coy , North 's junior aide . |
| 19 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Never seemed to cotton on to the fact that I do n't like morning mists . |
| 22 | Lennie spoilt everything for George but George never seemed to mind terribly much . |
| 23 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 24 | Associated with this , I feel , was the fact that he never suffered from jet-lag . |
| 25 | The story of the Lionheart 's narrow escape was told by William Marshal himself and since William never suffered from modesty it may have been improved in the telling . |
| 26 | On the other hand , Maryon Lane , one of two further South African girls ( the other being Patricia Miller ) who joined in August 1947 , thinks the chief cause of ill-will had been the obnoxious behaviour of one person , and says she herself never suffered from resentment but was accepted by the company where everyone seemed like family . |
| 27 | Once asleep , he never woke before morning . |
| 28 | The training school in the Sardinian foreign ministry which was seriously considered at the end of the 1840s never came into existence . |
| 29 | [ Though well received by the public schools , the scheme never came into effect , mainly because of the unwillingness of either central government or LEAs to take responsibility for payment of the grants . ] |
| 30 | But the case never came to court . |