Example sentences of "never [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As I seek after truth , so shall I always be glad to receive any information from my friends , even if they should contradict what I may have published , yet I shall never think it derogatory to my character to own my mistakes , and rectify them .
2 no , we never got it right , what were the answers on that ?
3 We never got it straight but he was a good MD .
4 Despite this , Moseley 's skills never made him rich .
5 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 ) .
6 It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it .
7 She had never given him any reason to feel suspicious , and she certainly never encouraged any impropriety with the carmen and dockers who came regularly into the dining rooms .
8 I 've never given her enough sympathy .
9 Blanche realised that Robert had never given her any other .
10 ‘ You might own this place , Miguel , and you might have the right to stand where you like on it , but you 'll never make me pleased to see you ever again .
11 However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have .
12 What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’
13 He said tie this and I 'll give you a penny , but he never gavr me any money .
14 Or you might want to put photographs into your brochures but have never considered it possible before because they are only photocopied .
15 It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse .
16 Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny !
17 They never drew me naked .
18 ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet .
19 Of course , at first I did do all the humdrum work , though to be honest , I never found it dull .
20 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 . "
21 and it jerked me , but she said it 's a muscle been pulled and it 's , it keeps spasm so she said er , could of been nasty , said I dare n't tell him , cos I says if I tell him it was his fault , I says he 'll never give me another ride , it 's again Thursday night coming back , and his car , you know the car kept , bump , bump , bump , bump , bump
22 We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week .
23 If you do n't have the skill , Employment Action will never give you those skills .
24 I 've not only never felt like this before , I never imagined it possible .
25 . And they ne er never never answers it direct , never answers it direct .
26 . And they ne er never never answers it direct , never answers it direct .
27 I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign .
28 Four spoonfuls a cup , and bags of boiled sweets on the side , have never done him any harm , he reckons .
29 ‘ They 've never done me any harm and I have seven bairns , ’ she said while eating a bag of chips in the sun .
30 ‘ I 've never seen him drunk . ’
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