Example sentences of "never did [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One elderly farmer said : ‘ I never did go much on Princess Diana . |
| 2 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 3 | But Carol Wilson never did go back to Virgin . |
| 4 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 5 | Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators . |
| 6 | Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show . |
| 7 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 8 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 9 | She never did discover how the puddings turned out . |
| 10 | He got out his pills , tipped them out on the table and started counting them — which took absolutely ages because he never did count too well . |
| 11 | Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued . |
| 12 | ‘ He never did come back to us , ’ said the young man positively . |
| 13 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 14 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 15 | never did get round |
| 16 | never did get round to hoovering the carpet . |
| 17 | He never did get around to framing it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
| 19 | Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to . |
| 20 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 21 | I never did find out what the seminar was about ! |
| 22 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 23 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 24 | Never did find out what they had against him . ’ |
| 25 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 26 | I never did find out who the Malaysians were planning to buy timber from in 2005 . |
| 27 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 28 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 29 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 30 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |