Example sentences of "never did [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He never did answer that one .
2 ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ?
3 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 .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything .
6 ‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you .
7 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 .
8 We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one .
9 But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked .
10 I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay .
11 I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’
12 Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar .
13 Never did like that group …
14 I never did like those open topped buses .
15 ‘ I never did trust that new Mayor Mutton nor none of his creatures neither , ’ said she .
16 And Aunt Janice never did remember any more about whatever Rory had hidden in his later work .
17 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 .
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