Example sentences of "[vb past] it never " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a party a party for the kids in Aberystwyth on Saturday , but all the students paid it never cost us a halfpenny . |
| 2 | I never could decide who was right , socialists — even revolutionaries — or the arch-capitalists , and it seemed we 'd never find out in Britain because whatever way the popular vote went it never really brought any real change of direction . |
| 3 | It was always exciting — and we knew it never meant anything . |
| 4 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 5 | They insisted it never happened . |
| 6 | Has the revolution of 1989 been lost already , or did it never really happen at all ? |
| 7 | Why , in all the hundreds of millions of years since its ancestors first evolved a pinhole eye , did it never discover the principle of the lens ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did it never occur to you to knock before you came barging in ? ’ she demanded . |
| 9 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 10 | The crowd cheered the Empress who responded with a curtsy — that famous gesture which those who witnessed it never forgot and which became the hallmark of Eugénie 's graciousness . |
| 11 | Apologising unreservedly , publisher FT Business Information Ltd said it never intended to suggest Mr Bell was involved . |
| 12 | Ruth wanted it never to end but always in the back of her mind was the thought that it must . |