Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never shared my family 's passion for horses . |
| 2 | I never overstayed my welcome and always dreamed up some excuse if any of them suggested meeting me outside working hours . |
| 3 | But my father never realised his plan … |
| 4 | It took the Venetians until 1420 to win control of all the territory promised to them by Ladislas , who in fact never realised his ambition to wear the crown of Hungary . |
| 5 | ‘ I never realised our dog was so clever ! ’ |
| 6 | She never met my eye . |
| 7 | The men were sullen and never met his eye ; but someone had to organise them , and no-one cared to oppose him . |
| 8 | Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years . |
| 9 | He never asked her name . |
| 10 | I NEVER ASKED her name . |
| 11 | ( I never asked her name . ) |
| 12 | I never asked his name either . |
| 13 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 14 | Ruysch , a member of the Royal Society , devised an arterial technique for human embalming ; although a master of the art he was extremely secretive and never divulged his recipe . |
| 15 | Parents , almost universally , never read Her Majesty 's inspectorate reports on their schools . |
| 16 | And er Margaret never got her money back from er , for . |
| 17 | She never got her use back and she never spoke again . |
| 18 | He never got his way . |
| 19 | Now , but he forgot to tell the police so unfortunately for p poor old Bill he never got his name in history . |
| 20 | He was told to strip for a medical examination but he was n't up to scratch and failed , and so never got his chance . |
| 21 | I never got my money back from Bill Murphy , either . |
| 22 | I never got my dollar . |
| 23 | I never got my meat out ! |
| 24 | And I took that little book up to the union and showed it to the branch secretary and still I never got my bike or any compensation for it . |
| 25 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 26 | Ten patients ( 3.2% ) claimed that they had never been advised to check their urine , a further 39 ( 13% ) never checked their urine , and 53 ( 17% ) checked their urine less than weekly . |
| 27 | Was it because the Holy Ones feared that the key to this inner knowledge and the inner voice would be misused that they never revealed their knowledge ? |
| 28 | Despite this , they never made their pressure tell . |
| 29 | Felix whistled ‘ Cigareets and wuskey and wild wild women ’ and wondered why the latter never made his acquaintance . |
| 30 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |