Example sentences of "he [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband , Avery George , denied similar charges , which were dismissed after after he agreed never to keep animals again . |
| 2 | Tom has infected at least 6 people — thought he has never even met Jane , Mark and Alan . |
| 3 | However , he has never stated that this was in fact the case . |
| 4 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 5 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 6 | On closer questioning , I find he has never driven a cab before ; he is an economics student filling in for his brother . |
| 7 | Even after deciding to put public service behind him and concentrate on the private sector , he has never quite seemed able to escape involvement with government . |
| 8 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 9 | Charles was too sensitive for his liking , too intellectual , too philosophical , and although Charles adored his father and has spent a lifetime trying to please him and be as he would like , he has never really succeeded . |
| 10 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 11 | ‘ The direct cause of the Clapham Junction accident was undoubtedly the wiring errors made by Mr Hemingway , ’ the report says , adding : ‘ He has never sought to evade his reponsibility for the appalling consequences of his errors … not one word of excuse came from Mr Hemingway . ’ |
| 12 | Remittance Man deserved this change of luck as he has never been out of the frame in his seven previous starts but had only managed one win . |
| 13 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 14 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |
| 15 | He says he has never been able to get the image out of his mind . |
| 16 | Suspicious of session musicians , he has never been in the habit of sharing his thoughts about chord sequences or the like ; his co-artists have been expected to listen hard and play along if they can . |
| 17 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 18 | ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation . |
| 19 | His friends have confirmed that , unlike other Hollywood stars ( Michael Douglas , Warren Beatty ) , he has never been drawn to backstage machinations , has never been obsessed with the art of the deal . |
| 20 | ‘ And he has never married ? ’ |
| 21 | He has his independence and he tells me he has never been happier in his life . |
| 22 | Compelled by duty and curiosity , Daniel flies to a remote Arizona suburb to return the body to the stepmother and half-brother he has never met . |
| 23 | SEAN KELLY , 36 next month , will find in the 164-mile Tour of Flanders tomorrow that it will not be his age but the rest of the professional ‘ peleton ’ that will make victory in the one classic he has never won practically impossible , writes Phil Liggett . |
| 24 | He was there to do something he has never done since he left the Conservative party in 1974 . |
| 25 | He has never been enthusiastic about it , regarding the growing grassroots demand for proportional representation as a distraction from the main issues facing the party , but aides insist he now has an open mind about the outcome of the review . |
| 26 | He has never recovered from lending £120m of his bank 's gold to the busted flush of Wall Street , Drexel Burnham . |
| 27 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 28 | Bloomsbury , £17.99 THERE is a persistent myth about Georges Simenon , inventor of Inspector Maigret , which holds that he has never received proper recognition as a novelist . |
| 29 | Playing black yesterday , Short again surprised Karpov with an opening variation he has never played before . |
| 30 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |