Example sentences of "never did [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 And we never did go back on the payroll after that .
2 But Carol Wilson never did go back to Virgin .
3 Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators .
4 Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show .
5 Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued .
6 ‘ He never did come back to us , ’ said the young man positively .
7 Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’
8 never did get round
9 never did get round to hoovering the carpet .
10 He never did get around to framing it . ’
11 ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’
12 Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act .
13 I never did find out what the seminar was about !
14 Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation .
15 I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence .
16 Never did find out what they had against him . ’
17 But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free .
18 I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 .
19 Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least .
20 Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families .
21 All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out .
22 Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen
23 They were like Little And Large in a way , but I never did work out which one was the straight man .
24 The ASI reads from sixty to 600 knots , To its left a twin-pointer rev-counter has needles marked G and D for gauche and droit , indicating similarly enormous numbers up to 25,000 rpm ( ten times a piston engine 's revs ) — and no , I never did work out which was which without stopping to translate .
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