Example sentences of "my [noun sg] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-Hugo , come to think of it , my hair never got mussed . |
| 2 | my Dad does the shopping on his way home from work on a Friday , so my Mum never goes to the supermarket , |
| 3 | My mum never took any board but now I 've got this job I 'll have to start paying her . |
| 4 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 5 | Put it this way at least my Mum never beat up my Dad . |
| 6 | My sister never gave twopence for convention either . ’ |
| 7 | My genius never fails to amaze . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , you are ; and now let me tell you something : years ago I made up my mind never to marry a woman older than myself . |
| 9 | It was my practice never to record anything , especially conversations , after three days … it is surprising how efficient one 's memory can become with practice . ’ |
| 10 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 11 | My boss never said a word . |
| 12 | My boss never said a word to me . |
| 13 | My husband never wore a corset , not like some here tonight . ’ |
| 14 | My nose never smelt such noisome smells , and my eyes never beheld such ghastly spectacles ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ My sword never makes a mistake . |
| 16 | The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide . |
| 17 | An experience of which I am thoroughly ashamed , and thankfully at the time my crew never knew , came to pass one night early in 1943 . |
| 18 | Worsthorne looks horrified : ‘ My despair never reached those proportions . ’ |
| 19 | Well my friend never paid |
| 20 | I mean I kind of you know , you give a start and unfortunately if you 're in bed with somebody else you tend to wake them up , because my wife never does that , she 's just too good to be true . |
| 21 | ‘ My wife never met him , ’ Mr Crump interrupted , helpfully . |
| 22 | For example , I never know where my wife is , and my wife never knows what I 'm doing . |
| 23 | We thought this was a jolly easy way of making money and it must have been , because my Father never repeated this idea again . |
| 24 | But my father never realised his plan … |
| 25 | ‘ I was track-running and playing rugby , yet my father never received one sports report from school , ’ he said . |
| 26 | By now Menelik was totally incapacitated and my father never met him . |
| 27 | I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office . |
| 28 | My father never saw a |
| 29 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 30 | My father never touched me again . |