Example sentences of "[pers pn] never [vb past] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 3 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 4 | She said : ‘ I never thought to enjoy a book about a foreign country so much ’ — she liked the expatriates , because they lived in the past . |
| 5 | I never intended to have a relationship with you . |
| 6 | I never intended to make a scene , but — ’ |
| 7 | By the end of that second night I never wanted to see a chip again . |
| 8 | Oh , yes , I never did get a chance to fly that big buzzard . |
| 9 | I mean Margaret used to come in and everything was done for her , I mean she never had to do a thing well that hit her terribly you see . |
| 10 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 12 | You never minded taking a risk , and , of course , that 's what it is . |
| 13 | ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising . |
| 14 | We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report . |
| 15 | However , he never ceased to admire a poem like ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ : |
| 16 | He 'd promised the boy , he said , he never liked to break a promise . |