Example sentences of "i never [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I never got him ’ ( 77f. ) , and promises to take the necessary legal steps to make Edmund capable of inheriting his patrimony , otherwise closed to a bastard : ‘ Loyal and natural boy , I 'll work the means/To make thee capable ’ ( 84f . ) . |
| 32 | SEAN HUGHES ( comedian ) : ‘ I never got over the fact that my penis looked like Bobby Charlton . |
| 33 | I turned around ; I never got home . |
| 34 | But I never got used to seeing the Queen eat . |
| 35 | I never got on very well and ended up getting thrown out of my classes . |
| 36 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 37 | I never I never got too familiar to that extent you know . |
| 38 | I never got out that number one class , you see ? |
| 39 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |
| 40 | I never got a chance to defend myself and I would n't have known the right thing to say if I had . |
| 41 | I never got drunk — that is , I never got too drunk ; I never wrote prescriptions for imaginary patients ; I never made advances to women in my surgery . |
| 42 | I never got drunk — that is , I never got too drunk ; I never wrote prescriptions for imaginary patients ; I never made advances to women in my surgery . |
| 43 | I never got as far as the meat inspector , actually … just saw one of the slaughtermen " |
| 44 | I never got near enough to him to find out . |
| 45 | ‘ Jacqui , I 'm afraid I never got the photos to him . ’ |
| 46 | more I did I never got anything for but that was easy for the dockers and easy for me . |
| 47 | I never got hardened , that way . |
| 48 | ‘ Well … ’ he replied , ‘ I was a sheep once in the Christmas play , but I never got any of the good lines . ’ |
| 49 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 50 | But I never got to do them . |
| 51 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 52 | I hoped I never got her if she did jury duty . |
| 53 | ‘ I never got into the rat-race — or the brat-race as it is now — because I never wanted to . |
| 54 | I never got in that deep . |
| 55 | I never got so far in teaching you . |
| 56 | I never got a shot off . ’ |
| 57 | I never got cross , but he wanted an audience and I was prepared to be one . |
| 58 | I was just about to ask him about the horse — and I never got another chance afterwards . |
| 59 | I wondered about it , but somehow I never got around to asking . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |