Example sentences of "i never [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter I never attacked Rowse 's political views in print , and , when I came to know him better , I no longer felt I had reason to do so . |
| 2 | Instead I 've been thrust into the sort of social whirl I never experienced in Nottingham — or in London , for that matter . ‘ |
| 3 | I never experienced any direct insults . |
| 4 | Er the industrial life I never experienced before . |
| 5 | During my whole flight career , and that was long enough , I never experienced any hostile actions from the RAF . |
| 6 | ‘ I never cheated Saint Winifred , nor will she suffer cheating now . |
| 7 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 8 | ‘ I never left you , ’ Christine said . |
| 9 | ‘ I never left him , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I never left school till I was fifteen . |
| 11 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 12 | I never got as far as the wedding , Mum , but it was unlucky , was n't it ? ’ |
| 13 | I never got beyond page two this morning . ’ |
| 14 | I was seriously considering going to India to become a monk but I never got round to it ! ’ |
| 15 | I never got my money back from Bill Murphy , either . |
| 16 | Besides training and obtaining supplies , there was Arabic to learn , though I never got very far , French and Hausa to improve , and dozens of books to read on desert survival and the background to the Sahara . |
| 17 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 18 | I never got an answer to my question , a reasonable enough one I maintained , what was magnetism ? |
| 19 | I never got beyond the moment he sets eyes on him , which happens at the top of the second page . |
| 20 | I never got my dollar . |
| 21 | I never got as far as his nose . |
| 22 | I never got to hear Arthur Calder-Marshall talking about Patrick Hamilton , but just a few days later I was able to read Patrick Hamilton about Arthur Calder-Marshall , in a letter to Hamilton 's brother in 1951 about a radio talk Calder-Marshall had given : ‘ Arthur C-M 's description of me as he first knew me ( at the Wells Hotel , Hampstead ) makes very amusing reading . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 24 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 25 | I never got over the shock . |
| 26 | I 'd run , and no one caught me , so I never got walloped or anything . |
| 27 | I never got it off on that Gary Kibbett stuff . |
| 28 | I never got good enough ( or brave enough ) to test her advice out , but , being by inclination an optimist , I would like to think that something of the same logic would apply to the National Curriculum and its tests . |
| 29 | I never got near enough to her to tell her about the boxing and eventually left home as soon as I could . ’ |
| 30 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |