Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was track-running and playing rugby , yet my father never received one sports report from school , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
| 3 | I 've never stopped myself talking to her about anything before , she thought . |
| 4 | Which has never stopped her charging me painfully large sums . |
| 5 | ‘ Every bullet has his billet ’ is a distinctively modern saying , first recorded in that form in 1765 , and in use up to the present day to indicate that sometimes no precautions work ; yet saying the proverb , and believing it , probably never stopped anyone taking cover . |
| 6 | She said she had never realised what went on before as she went round and inhabited each seat and became the person . |
| 7 | She 'd never realised she possessed such a deep core of selfishness . |
| 8 | He 'd never realised he had become so attached to Lizzie and his own pain was unbearable . |
| 9 | But I have never heard him confess his unworthiness in this field of human endeavour . |
| 10 | Doogie 's idea of knocking on a door was to impersonate a heavy machine-gun and I 'd never heard him run out of ammunition . |
| 11 | I have listened to many of his speeches and I have never heard him advocate that before . |
| 12 | Jane had never heard him speak with such enthusiasm about anybody before . |
| 13 | Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face . |
| 14 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 15 | ‘ I have never heard him speak of politics . ’ |
| 16 | I had never heard him talk so much . |
| 17 | She had never heard him scream like it , the dreadful sound echoed back from the sides of the skip and his fists were hard as little rocks . |
| 18 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 19 | Yet I 've never heard him cry out in pain before . ’ |
| 20 | I 've never heard him say anything like that before . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never heard him say ‘ indeed , indeed , ’ I must admit . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Just before Micky died , he said something I 've never heard him say before . ’ |
| 23 | I 've never heard him say that before . |
| 24 | you know real , I 've never heard him do that before . |
| 25 | He has a soft dark brown voice , which I have never heard him raise , an acute sense of the ridiculous , and we 're extremely bad for each other . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 28 | He had never heard her mention his name . |
| 29 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 30 | I 'd never heard her speak like this before . |