Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] never [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
| 2 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 3 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 4 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 5 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 7 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 8 | Hypnotherapy is examined , and while Alec Bedser is sincere in his assertion that he never needed extra motivation ( and also in his justified bellyache that Hutton never gave him enough credit ) , the need is unquestionably there in many cases , and modern sports-thought seeks to help . |
| 9 | And I never had any problem at all when I was there but some of the keepers had . |
| 10 | I was just about to ask him about the horse — and I never got another chance afterwards . |
| 11 | And I never found any embarrassment there because there was I always saw the wom woman , you could always see a woman chemist . |
| 12 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 13 | and I think , I think the difficulty with that is until you know it , as one person said to Alex in front of me ah well , we , we did exactly what you required and you never brought any audience , there was no audience , do you remember that ? |
| 14 | Elizabeth said that ( like myself ) she could never bring herself to utter the words ‘ Natter and Noggin' ; and she never had any need to do so , for that establishment was no longer in existence when she visited Kyrenia eighteen years later — and she rather liked the place . |
| 15 | ‘ She was thrilled to bits , ’ he said : ‘ The pictures are innocuous and she never gave any indication she was unhappy about them . |
| 16 | Would you mind if you never made another movie again ? |
| 17 | It all washed down and that and we never had any trouble . |
| 18 | Yeah Do you want sheet , no I wo n't press enter yet , ca n't do it now printing type escape to stop now it 's alright , I 'll wait On it 's side at the top of the page and everything never did any computing . |
| 19 | After all , Niki did too on occasion — until it brought Niki a recurrence of the Nürburgring nightmare and he never touched another joint in his life . |
| 20 | And he never had any hesitation in using his reputation to reach the most unapproachable people personally if he thought that conservation would benefit as a result . |
| 21 | His ferocious anti-Christianity , in no way the creature of fashion , never waned even in old age ; and he never forgot that literature is about something , and that it matters whether that something is true or false . |
| 22 | ‘ Course , there 's badgers up in the banks but I never heard that name — ’ She broke off . |
| 23 | But I never had any terror of the dark , and was not like Shakespeare 's man , ‘ in the night , imagining some fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I never had any inkling that something like this would happen . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I knew he was on the take , but I never had enough evidence to show Hamilton . |
| 26 | I knew that we could get an immunity , normally by going to the doctor and having a vaccination or inoculation , but I never knew that right inside every one of us there was a built-in fire brigade , a whole troupe of Red Adair troubleshooters just waiting to be called upon to do their stuff . |
| 27 | I believe Vigilant was a better seaboat , but I never served any time on her in adverse conditions to find out . |
| 28 | My mother said brown does n't show the dirt but she never saw this house . |
| 29 | Gentle ‘ But we never had any sign that they had problems with their marriage . |
| 30 | ‘ We stirred it up , yes , but we never lost any money for anybody and we never added to the unemployment figures . ’ |