Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] never [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About nationalisation I never had any doubt . |
| 2 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 3 | First , there were those 18 individuals who never had any contact with the Drugs Council . |
| 4 | The then deputy was an equally able person who never tolerated any nonsense . |
| 5 | In spite of all the exercise Signor Grignaffini took on his bicycle he never lost any weight : food and wine were too great a temptation for him . |
| 6 | Oppressive parents , over-close siblings and a stifling family atmosphere were regarded , for example , as causative factors in schizophrenia , and relatives — rightly — deeply resented a theory which never had any foundation in hard research evidence . |
| 7 | What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |