Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m .
2 I never realized it before , but we 've got to do it our way …
3 Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock .
4 But do you know , Norman , in all the years that Halifax held office I never met him once . ’
5 ‘ I never expected anything else .
6 ‘ I never asked it before .
7 If she let the subject go cold on her , then she never got it straight in her mind .
8 That he could walk in and out of it unannounced never made it less than her own .
9 Yet , after becoming dean of York in 1406 he did one more reshuffle of his holdings , then never changed them again .
10 We never changed them very much , because we knew the path we were on , but we consciously spoke about them .
11 ‘ And you never mentioned them even when you tried to ring Steen ? ’
12 I do n't know I 'm sure but he never mentioned it anyway .
13 When she came back after she went out there too his wedding she never mentioned it once again .
14 I never used one before until I came here .
15 But there were seven in all these streets here and we never used they never used to go to town .
16 But I used to enjoy speed quite a lot , y'know , but never , I never used it intravenously .
17 What are the three key things perhaps I need to know about Host if I never used it before ?
18 They never caught him again .
19 ‘ He used to be bitter because his father never visited him either but he never let his feelings out . ’
20 This is now widely accepted , but Mr.X , strangely , never pursued it further with reference to the anatomy of the individual golfer .
21 I never tried it actually .
22 As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating .
23 Though his name appears on various lists of members of the chapel , John never became a deacon and never involved himself deeply in church affairs .
24 You never deserved him anyway .
25 He was the quintessential film star in that he never played anyone else .
26 Even if I never played it again I would put the guitar on display in my house , because it 's like a work of art . ’
27 Maybe he was right but I never noticed them particularly pointed in my direction !
28 It would be rash to state that people never misbehaved themselves sexually .
29 When Boswell , hearing his praise of it , said , perhaps enquiringly , ‘ You never ate it before , ’ Johnson replied that he had hot but did not care how soon he ate it again .
30 ‘ I never imagined anything else .
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