Example sentences of "never [verb] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there on , they never let slip their icy grip on the game . |
| 2 | But then incompatible interests never did bother our new hero . |
| 3 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 4 | Hierarchy never did have its day . |
| 5 | Bill Clinton never did get his Oxford degree . |
| 6 | We never did find his house did we ? |
| 7 | I never did learn their surnames . |
| 8 | It was difficult to believe that the Birdman ( I never did learn his name ) was the same man I had watched earlier in the day catching puffins on the cliffs beyond the village . |
| 9 | Incidentally , he never did baptise my breast with Mississippi water ; the only time a bottle passed between us was when I sent him some Taburel water to stop his hair falling out . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll say , ’ Ven snarled , and was over by the door , blocking out the light from the sitting-room when , ‘ I never did like my women that clinging ! ’ he barked brutally . |
| 11 | We never did afford our meal did we ? |
| 12 | ‘ But then , you never do like my gentleman friends , do you ? ’ |