Example sentences of "never [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 2 | I went to the theatre , and met people — you know , I never met many people . |
| 3 | I never met any students who could define what this slogan meant , but usually it brought a look of amusement to their faces . |
| 4 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought the horses I was riding had each way chances but I never expected four winners . |
| 6 | As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction . |
| 7 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 8 | More were needed for this task than were ever recruited to work underground , and many Cornish youths who worked at the tin " stamps " as " buddle boys " never became adult miners . |
| 9 | Poor Johnny never got much sleep last night . |
| 10 | I 'd of never never got that hose out without it would I , now ? |
| 11 | And he never got good wages . |
| 12 | I 've never use I 've never used nothing on my skin I never got nice skin oh no I do n't , no I do n't , well any waste of money is a gimmick . |
| 13 | I was just about to ask him about the horse — and I never got another chance afterwards . |
| 14 | Never got another thing . |
| 15 | He never got another dog to replace Captain . |
| 16 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 17 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 18 | But I mean , when I was living with her we just had all these arguments cos , you know , I just never got any peace ! |
| 19 | ‘ We never got any recognition for it , but Vidal 's short , geometric look , which made his name and got him into the news , had never before been seen . |
| 20 | . We didna have any option , we never got any option . |
| 21 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 22 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |
| 23 | She knew that the prince was not well off , he never made any bones about it . |
| 24 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 25 | It never made any links with the next ‘ sex and local government ’ moral panic about child abuse in Cleveland in the late eighties . |
| 26 | She never made any comment on the notes , seemed neither upset nor glad to receive them . |
| 27 | ‘ Caroline never made any fuss about pulling her weight . ’ |
| 28 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 29 | Would you mind if you never made another movie again ? |
| 30 | I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all . |