Example sentences of "never [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd never think they had children of their own . |
| 2 | ‘ We have all discovered reserves of physical strength and courage which we never realised we had before . |
| 3 | ‘ I never realised you felt like this , Edward , ’ said Mrs Fitton petulantly . |
| 4 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 5 | He was so clever , so successful , but I never realized they cared about me , too . ’ |
| 6 | I said I never realized she 'd only that bit . |
| 7 | I never realized he had a criminal record . ’ |
| 8 | I never realized you thought she was dead . ’ |
| 9 | As Richard looks forward to 1992 , he also thinks of two people he never met who carried donor cards and saved his life not once , but twice . |
| 10 | She said she had never realised what went on before as she went round and inhabited each seat and became the person . |
| 11 | She 'd never realised she possessed such a deep core of selfishness . |
| 12 | He 'd never realised he had become so attached to Lizzie and his own pain was unbearable . |
| 13 | Hector never asked what had happened at the moid . |
| 14 | I 've never heard it described better ! ’ ) |
| 15 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 16 | At Lyon , I have never heard it mentioned once . |
| 17 | Along with scores of authors of whom he had never heard he found forgotten friends : Hugh Walpole , John Galsworthy , and the redoubtable Mazo de la Roche , captivator of millions who would now be devotees of TV soap … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'd never guessed — she went off with someone else , d' you see , I 'd never guessed she wanted that . ’ |
| 20 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 21 | CBS or the BBC might say we made a mistake , but CNN never say we made a mistake , they just keep cranking it out . |
| 22 | We shall probably never know what went on behind the scenes when these phrases were added to the documents . |
| 23 | I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered . |
| 24 | With luck they 'll never know what happened to him . |
| 25 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |
| 26 | We have his word that he is not gay , so we will never know what drew him to Hampstead Heath after dark ; nor why he wears a wedding ring when he is unmarried . |
| 27 | We shall perhaps never know what sparked his enthusiasm for collecting , but is certainly to be thanked for saving the many carriages , vans and carts which would otherwise have been broken up or left to rot . |
| 28 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 29 | Bonefish Straker reckoned that some Bahamian kids must have stolen the boat as a means of getting home , but we would never know who had wrecked her , only that they had removed a dinghy load of gear including her chronometer , sextant , VHF , barometer , spare sails , lines , fenders , and even the mattress off the starboard quarter-berth . |
| 30 | If what he saw through security did not impress him , Tammuz need never know he 'd had a visitor . |