Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pers pn] any " in BNC.
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1 | Her family were good , she said , " never caused us any bother " , and her husband was good , " d' you know , he 's never been to court in all his life . " |
2 | He never told me any details . ’ |
3 | He gave her physical protection , but never showed her any affection again . |
4 | With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child . |
5 | While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’ |
6 | He never did me any harm . ’ |
7 | But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy . |
8 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |
9 | And I 'm sure I never gave her any reason to be so high-and-mighty ! ’ |
10 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
11 | Natasha Kornilof : ‘ I have to say David never gave me any notes . |
12 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
13 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
14 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
15 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’ |