Example sentences of "never [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Grace never failed to send a letter on the first of every month , and somehow managed to sound cheerful despite being surrounded by death . |
| 3 | However , he never ceased to admire a poem like ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ : |
| 4 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 5 | I agreed , but never seemed to notice a Gray Mare on any of my trips to Kilburn . |
| 6 | Anne never seemed to have a free moment . |
| 7 | It was totally demanding , I never seemed to have a free minute . |
| 8 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 9 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 10 | We never looked to encounter an armed company in the forest , and so close to Leicester . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I never thought to see a Tyrian at my table , but you 're very welcome , sir . ’ |
| 12 | She said : ‘ I never thought to enjoy a book about a foreign country so much ’ — she liked the expatriates , because they lived in the past . |
| 13 | Any production of ‘ A Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ with a host of well-known film stars , plus music by Mendelssohn , could not help but be of interest , but apparently it never did make a box-office fortune for MGM . |
| 14 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 15 | We never did have a proper wash house at our place like some people , with a big boiler and a fire underneath for hot water . |
| 16 | Even under Anne , when the ministry of the day never did lose a General Election , it was not always able to get the type of Parliament it wanted . |
| 17 | We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report . |
| 18 | Oh , yes , I never did get a chance to fly that big buzzard . |
| 19 | That 'd be nice to get like , for Teresa , cos she never did get a |
| 20 | I never did get an answer to that final one . |
| 21 | The Conservatives never did mount an efficient and effective campaign . |
| 22 | On the other hand Edward II tried in vain to get Robert Baldock provided to Lichfield in 1321 , to Winchester in 1323 and to Norwich in 1325 ; Baldock never did become a bishop . |
| 23 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 24 | Being one who never liked to let an opportunity slip by , I wrote that afternoon to Hugh Campbell , CPR Press Officer in Winnipeg , requesting a rail pass to Vancouver and return . |
| 25 | He 'd promised the boy , he said , he never liked to break a promise . |
| 26 | I mean Margaret used to come in and everything was done for her , I mean she never had to do a thing well that hit her terribly you see . |
| 27 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 28 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising . |
| 30 | The large percentage of now elderly women who never married reflects an important cohort effect which was introduced earlier ; the impact of the First World War . |