Example sentences of "never [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately Russia never became directly involved and the war was limited to the Korean peninsula , but its effect on Europe was considerable . |
| 2 | But the effluent saga had lasted for nearly eight years and although the court appearances were relatively few and Laura herself never became directly involved , the publicity was unwelcome for a company which claimed the Welsh countryside as the key to its philosophy . |
| 3 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 4 | ‘ We never came here to steal anything , and that 's the God 's honest truth . ’ |
| 5 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 6 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 7 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 8 | Then someone peers out the little square panel , and finally some bolts are drawn back and a Rasta I never saw before beckons me inside . |
| 9 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 10 | I never went though did you ? |
| 11 | Poor bloke , never did any harm to anyone . |
| 12 | Goodness knows , you hear somebody saying sometimes , goodness knows why he should suffer like that , he never did any harm to anyone . |
| 13 | I never did much care for it ’ . |
| 14 | I never did much care for it ’ . |
| 15 | I never had any taken until I felt happy with myself . |
| 16 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |