Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] never [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course we believe you when you say you never met the girl . |
| 2 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 3 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 4 | The German Friends of the Earth 's people told me never to do the washing on Monday mornings . |
| 5 | In fact , I hope I never see the place again . |
| 6 | ‘ He says he never saw a body when he moved it . |
| 7 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 8 | Let's hope she never becomes a pilot . |
| 9 | But I remember he never had a trap or anything . |
| 10 | Let's hope he never had a connection with the other American icon — or I dong — he 's writing about : JOHN HOLMES . |
| 11 | My dad always brought me up saying you never lay a finger on a woman , never ever . |
| 12 | When we are rehearsing and recording he never touches a drop of alcohol ; but afterwards there are many toasts and celebrations . |
| 13 | " The Koran tells me never to drink a drop of wine . " |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | " I must admit I never liked the sound of you when she talked about you — which was often . " |
| 16 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 17 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |
| 18 | Three , the thief knew he never wears a hat . |
| 19 | ‘ As accountant for the firm , did you never question the validity of the books ? ’ |
| 20 | Did you never enter the tunnel like you were |
| 21 | The trouble is , when you 've got your violin it means you never get a chance , you know , if they say well we 're going to prepare however , well she can . |
| 22 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Ye always said ye never needed a doctor . ’ |
| 25 | Cos we said you never get a golliwog and we saw one and we |
| 26 | Then the weather got cold and I must 've realized it was nice havin' warm feet 'cos Mam said she never had no trouble with me after that . |
| 27 | And er erm Eileen said then she said we never had a warning then did we ? |
| 28 | This is not to say we never punish a horse : sometimes we must . |
| 29 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 30 | And despite the AIDS menace 20 per cent of the students questioned by Cosmopolitan magazine said they never used a condom . |