Example sentences of "never [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 2 | I never accepted that title , and I believe those who knew me and spoke honestly of me never applied it to me . |
| 3 | ‘ We have all discovered reserves of physical strength and courage which we never realised we had before . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so easy going out of America , I never realised it would be hard to get in ! |
| 5 | I was very shy and never realised it . |
| 6 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 7 | But Eileen replied reasonably , ‘ None of us was keen on her , Anne , but we hid it for Mum 's sake and Grandma never realised it . |
| 8 | I never realised it until lately , but looking back I can see she has always been inordinately vain . |
| 9 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire , but he has always been lucky . |
| 10 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire but he has always been lucky . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I never realised you were her father . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I never realised you felt like this , Edward , ’ said Mrs Fitton petulantly . |
| 13 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 14 | It was all play-acting , a bluff to get attention , but he never admitted it nor apologized for anything he had done or said . |
| 15 | People never bragged about their beginnings , only about what they had achieved , and never admitted it was through someone else 's sweat . |
| 16 | All right , Clare never admitted it and I ca n't prove it , but it still seems a betting certainty . ’ |
| 17 | She seldom saw him and certainly he never sought her out . |
| 18 | He was so clever , so successful , but I never realized they cared about me , too . ’ |
| 19 | I never realized she was n't , was n't here . |
| 20 | I never realized she was , she was was n't here until about yesterday . |
| 21 | I said I never realized she 'd only that bit . |
| 22 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 23 | I never realized it before , but we 've got to do it our way … |
| 24 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
| 25 | ‘ Terrible to think I once had you sipping sherry in my rooms and never realized it . |
| 26 | I never realized it 's first time price . |
| 27 | I never realized he had a criminal record . ’ |
| 28 | I never realized you thought she was dead . ’ |
| 29 | I never met hers . |
| 30 | ‘ I never met them but I 'll keep that ring all my life . ’ |