Example sentences of "never [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 2 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 3 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 4 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 5 | ‘ Paheri never once looked at a woman , though of course by thirteen we were hoping to match him . |
| 6 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 7 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 8 | But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor . |
| 9 | He adored her and never once complained in my presence of the fact that he always had to attend shul on his own . |
| 10 | Matthew concentrating on the steak , seemed impervious and never once rose to her bait , but James , it was clear , was cheered and encouraged by Jenny 's affectionate treatment . |
| 11 | It never once occurred to him that he might die . |
| 12 | It never once occurred to you that you might be an ignorant , selfish , lousy lover . |
| 13 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 14 | ‘ I NEVER ever went to a gig or had even heard of the term ‘ gig ’ before I joined the band , ’ says the little girl who owns pop 's most exquisite voice . |
| 15 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 16 | But I never ever worked on a boat you know . |
| 17 | She never ever referred to what had happened on the beach . |
| 18 | The assassin never usually spoke to anyone except her customers , except to order a drink . |
| 19 | He never usually talked like this , and I did n't like it . |
| 20 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |
| 21 | Deng reportedly said in Shenzhen : " If capitalism had something good , then socialism should bring it over and use it " , recalling the reformist line adopted at the 13th party congress in 1987 [ see pp. 35576-78 ] and never formally repudiated despite the strong influence of hardline conservatives , especially after the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989 . |
| 22 | I never before worked with such complete belief in and admiration for any man or any government and one 's faith in democracy is apt to be shattered when one sees a man like S.B. defeated by falsehood and misrepresentation . |
| 23 | ‘ You know I never really agreed with letting everyone learn to read . |
| 24 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 25 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 26 | The truth of this matter seems to be that the authors of the Convention never really took into account the mobile quality of people and documents . |
| 27 | While I had liked the Colonello very much , because of his courteous way of talking to me , I never really took to Camino — who seemed more English than the English with his stiff upper lip — although subsequently he behaved very well . |
| 28 | Parnelli never really got into it , ’ Mario says . |
| 29 | McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty . |
| 30 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |