Example sentences of "never [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Chris is the play 's voice of conscience , he is , ultimately , a rather quavery one : Miller never confronts him with his own reluctance to grow up , his willing collaboration with a domineering father and a mother who ignores him to worship her dead son . |
| 2 | Fonda read aloud a page of words to her and though his wife had never joined him in his LSD excursions , and marijuana made her sick , she understood from her husband 's descriptions of expanded-mind experiences and images the intensity of his feelings . |
| 3 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 4 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 5 | You could never fool him with a note and he never let you get away with anything . ’ |
| 6 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 7 | ‘ You did n't say anything about your brother so I never mentioned him to Emily Grenfell . |
| 8 | She never invited him to the jolly ones . |
| 9 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 10 | For the last two years or so of Phillip 's life , Marje never visited him at home , according to friends . |
| 11 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 12 | While he returned from that campaign with greater maturity , even his best friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition . |
| 13 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 14 | She had never visited him in Oxford before ; he had not been alone with her for years — not since the war , not since London . |
| 15 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 16 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 17 | Lewis 's Allegory of Love ( 1936 ) , the book that made him known , was almost all written while he was still an atheist ; and his Christian polemics , which began as war-time broadcasts , never prevented him from winning secular admirers . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you sure you 've never seen him since , Bridget ? ’ |
| 19 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 20 | Bamber Gascoigne , who had never seen him at work before his show , told me : ‘ He was absolutely wonderful in it . |
| 21 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
| 22 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 23 | She had never seen him with an umbrella before . |
| 24 | Aye never they never seen him after . |
| 25 | She had never seen him in this mood before , but the expression on his face was familiar . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you know , ’ she said , ‘ I have never seen him in this room . |
| 27 | Patrick stripped off and changed quickly , trying to ignore Joseph Hyde 's too intense stare ; he had long suspected his friend 's preferences for young men — although to be perfectly fair , he had never seen him in any company other than those who supported the Irish movement . |
| 28 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 29 | She had never seen him in such a rage . |
| 30 | I 'd never seen him in anything as soft-looking , as human as the pair of scruffy trousers , open-necked shirt and dressing-gown he wore then . |