Example sentences of "it never [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It never dawned on me . " |
| 2 | It never hurt on the arm . |
| 3 | It never amounted to much , a few petty annoyances . |
| 4 | ‘ They all knew I was pregnant , but it never seemed to be something they took into consideration , ’ Lynda Coral recalls . |
| 5 | I came up here thinking I would ; I assumed I 'd need to offload on somebody , but somehow it never seemed to be the right time to introduce the subject . |
| 6 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 7 | It never came to the fore . |
| 8 | It never came to trial , since Charley died soon after Rose went home . |
| 9 | ‘ We may have only won 1–0 , but it never looked as if we would lose . |
| 10 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 11 | ‘ It never went through my mind that we had left Becky and Emma behind , ’ he said . |
| 12 | If you take your wife out for a meal , you invite her out for your meal you just say , let's go Tuesday night , it never went in the diary . |
| 13 | the shock of it never got over the shock of it though |
| 14 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 15 | It never got off the ground . |
| 16 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |
| 17 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |
| 18 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 19 | It never occurred to Charles that Diana would find any of this odd or difficult to accept ; but her upbringing had been entirely different . |
| 20 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 21 | Being as it was David 's mother , an older person , it never occurred to me to get mad or upset . |
| 22 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 23 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |
| 24 | So strong was her need to talk to Simon , that it never occurred to her that he might not actually live there . |
| 25 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 26 | She said that it never occurred to her or her husband that her village would be harmed or its people endangered . |
| 27 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 28 | For some reason it never occurred to me to lie or make any effort at all to save my invaluable little tin box . |
| 29 | It never occurred to me that Karen might be grieving for her late husband . |
| 30 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |