Example sentences of "[vb past] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 2 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 3 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 4 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 5 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 6 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 7 | Durance said : ‘ Maurin and Joseph believed that as long as Sabine promised never to talk about the extent of her work on the paintings there 'd be no trouble . |
| 8 | They promised never to tell why but it was , Summers says , Hoover 's blackmail . |
| 9 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
| 10 | Ropes let down into it seem to go down forever , coins dropped never make a sound , etc . |
| 11 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd never done anything like that before . |
| 13 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 14 | I 'd never seen what people drank before so that was interesting — nor did I realize quite how many of the youngsters smoked ! |
| 15 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 16 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 17 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 18 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 19 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 21 | He 'd never given the impression of being a dog lover . |
| 22 | He 'd never realised he had become so attached to Lizzie and his own pain was unbearable . |
| 23 | Harold Wilson always used to say he 'd never got past page one , did n't he ? |
| 24 | He smiled and said ‘ Thank you ’ as if he 'd never seen me before , as did I. I went back to my seat and faced the front again . |
| 25 | I 'd never felt that tired in my life . |
| 26 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 27 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 28 | Minutes later he 'phoned back and asked how to place a bet because he 'd never done it before . |
| 29 | I suppose I 'd never really sat down and cried about it , ’ she recalls . |
| 30 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |