Example sentences of "he never [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours .
2 On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down .
3 He never sold any of them .
4 And yet he never sought another Great Wife .
5 She was beautiful as well , and he remembered that Clarissa 's warning that she was both clever and dangerous , had drawn from him the rather feeble reply that when they were pretty he never noticed much else .
6 ‘ You know he never said such a thing . ’
7 ‘ I bet he never said such rubbish . ’
8 He never said that .
9 He never said that at all .
10 no he never said that
11 He 's got ta come back in the morning but he never said that .
12 He never said another word until the end when he told me he would be going out at 8 AM with the same four-ball and he would see me then .
13 Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’
14 He never said any of this to anybody , only thought it sometimes .
15 He never expressed any special wish to own a Mercedes until he could afford one : then he had to have it , and it had to be bright red .
16 But he never knew that . ’
17 Despite a nationwide search by the FBI he never saw either of them again .
18 Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’
19 Yet he never retracted this avowal ; nor — given what he meant by it — did he need to .
20 ‘ Well , he never meant those lines for his tombstone .
21 He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite .
22 Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value .
23 He never wasted any did he ?
24 ‘ You know he never harmed this poor shepherd lad .
25 He made sure that he never had much on him .
26 He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others .
27 He never had much enthusiasm for making money .
28 In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning .
29 Dawn Run ( twice ) Street Angel and Atha Cliath were all Mullins winners there but he never had much luck in the National .
30 It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’
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