Example sentences of "never did [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you never did answer me ! |
| 2 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 3 | It was an interesting idea , but I never did think it would work . ’ |
| 4 | But he never did tell me what he 'd put on that stick . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 6 | where we were , that they 're going to rebuild , going to build it all the time I was there , but they never did build it , did they ? |
| 7 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 8 | Pointy-Beard never did make it to his feet . |
| 9 | I just put down Ex-Soldier and never did change it , even when he came in a couple of minutes later with his canvas bag over his shoulder . |
| 10 | Never did have it ! |
| 11 | I do n't have it , and never did have it ! ’ |
| 12 | They never did ring it but they meant to . |
| 13 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 14 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You never did encourage him . |
| 16 | Oh you never did ask her . |
| 17 | ‘ By the way , I never did ask you — what made you come round to the cottage that night ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I never did believe it , ’ he assured her . |
| 19 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 20 | never did get it . |
| 21 | London never did suit me . |
| 22 | I never did like him . ’ |
| 23 | I never did like it and now is a good time to get rid of it . |
| 24 | She had to go to hospital , she never did like it . |
| 25 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |