Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never shared her inner thoughts with anyone , not even her friends at school who had come to regard her as something of an enigma . |
| 2 | With the stigma of a life-ban hanging over him , his club form never realised its early potential and he now works as a storeman on an off-shore oil rig . |
| 3 | Gad I never realised what Total War really meant until this moment … ’ |
| 4 | I never realized what good fun fishing was . |
| 5 | He was soon posted to north Africa , and never met their only child , a daughter born 8 June 1941 . |
| 6 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 7 | ‘ You never got her full name ? ’ |
| 8 | Oh we got some this year , we never got none last year |
| 9 | no , we never got it right , what were the answers on that ? |
| 10 | We never got it straight but he was a good MD . |
| 11 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 12 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 13 | Despite this , Moseley 's skills never made him rich . |
| 14 | Though Plato never made it explicit that Thoth , the inventor of science , was identical with Hermes , the identification is stated by Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Hecataeus of Abdera ( Stobaeus 1 , Prooem. 6 , p. 20 Wachsmuth = Aristoxenus fr. 23 Wehrli ; Diodorus 1.16 ) . |
| 15 | Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny ! |
| 16 | They never drew me naked . |
| 17 | But she apparently never mentioned her early interest in photography . |
| 18 | You never mentioned his real dad in front of Luke . |
| 19 | And they never mentioned his girlish features or his bush of hair or the fact that he was so small and puny for his age . |
| 20 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 21 | Of course , at first I did do all the humdrum work , though to be honest , I never found it dull . |
| 22 | It was , she considered , time Sarah was married , but she never encountered anyone suitable ! |
| 23 | I never doubted my own skill but I 'm sure the problem had something to do with my suspicions about the bike . |
| 24 | They never fulfilled their original intention ( Keith-Lucas 1980 : 11 ) . |
| 25 | SAMUEL RESHEVSKY , the Polish-born chess player who has died in New York aged 80 , was a celebrated child prodigy , though he never fulfilled his early promise . |
| 26 | Beyond Surrey he never received his deserved recognition for his contribution to cricket . |
| 27 | ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures . |
| 28 | Her family were good , she said , " never caused us any bother " , and her husband was good , " d' you know , he 's never been to court in all his life . " |
| 29 | She never imagined her little sister , exasperating as she was , would join the bosses . |
| 30 | I 've not only never felt like this before , I never imagined it possible . |