Example sentences of "never [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never peed in front of other men . |
| 2 | Well she never got in contact with me again . |
| 3 | ‘ But you never got in touch with me after I left … ’ |
| 4 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 5 | Regardless of all his achievements and fame , he never changed in attitude and throughout his years until his retirement remained loyal to Balmoral Golf Club in Belfast . |
| 6 | The latter example also shows the inversion of the subject and verb in the source marker — a form never found in conversation . |
| 7 | The still-room people and the kitchen people never came in contact with the gentry , you see . |
| 8 | At first he thought it might be the Headmaster but even if he ran to check , he never arrived in time to find out who , or what it was . |
| 9 | It never happened in boxing . |
| 10 | Papa said that it was a good servant , but a bad master , and he never joined in temperance rant . |
| 11 | But forget 10-digit typing and you 're soon skipping across the keys with the irritating agility of people who never sweated in front of a Pitman 's chart . |
| 12 | Cross-references forward , whether from OED to itself or from Supplement to itself , are either non-existent , inaccurate , or ( occasionally ) ghosts ( because the object of the cross-reference never materialized in print for some reason ) . |
| 13 | Phillip never talked in detail about the depth of his relationship with Marje . |
| 14 | And victory never looked in doubt as he dominated throughout , making the fences seem little more than matchsticks . |
| 15 | Back to the superbikes and Fogarty 's win never looked in doubt . |
| 16 | Yesterday , once again , she never looked in danger of making a mistake and her rider was able to push her along fast enough to win by more than three seconds . |
| 17 | A survey of college students showed that 51 per cent of men never dreamed in colour , while only 31 per cent of women never did . " |
| 18 | She knew that her father had two sisters , although he never kept in touch with them . |
| 19 | My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all . |
| 20 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 21 | I never knew in advance when the next meeting would be . |
| 22 | We never did in fact get another , but the idea has remained in my mind as a good one . |
| 23 | The sentence : ‘ Algerian milk runs quickly up a drainpipe ’ has almost certainly never appeared in print before ( another NI first ) but you know exactly what is meant . |
| 24 | They never ran in service again . |