Example sentences of "never [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never dared do more than imagine it while Brückner was alive . |
| 2 | He never did answer that one . |
| 3 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 4 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 5 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 6 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 7 | I never did see 46202 , either in Turbomotive , or in rebuilt ‘ normal ’ guise , as , prior to its untimely demise at Harrow in 11952 , it was used exclusively on Liverpool Lime Street to Euston services . |
| 8 | ‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you . |
| 9 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 10 | We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one . |
| 11 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 12 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |
| 13 | I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’ |
| 14 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 15 | Never did like that group … |
| 16 | I never did like those open topped buses . |
| 17 | ‘ The course of true love never did run smooth . |
| 18 | But then they do say the course of true love … even if it is of the feathered variety , never did run smooth . |
| 19 | But the path of true love never did run smooth and who could blame Orsino for overlooking this waif-life creature with the short , dark , cropped hair for the Countess Olivia , she of the long flowing hair and dresses . |
| 20 | ‘ I never did trust that new Mayor Mutton nor none of his creatures neither , ’ said she . |
| 21 | And Aunt Janice never did remember any more about whatever Rory had hidden in his later work . |
| 22 | Because Marx never did write this anthropological work , it is futile to speculate too much on how his position would have been different from that of Engels . |
| 23 | ‘ But men and women never do match each other in that kind of way — that 's life . ’ |
| 24 | The course of unlawful love never does run smooth ; or with dignity ; or with romance . ’ |