Example sentences of "he never [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Beyond Surrey he never received his deserved recognition for his contribution to cricket .
2 He said tie this and I 'll give you a penny , but he never gavr me any money .
3 They had three daughters , but he never saw his third daughter ; she was born in Canada after the upheavals of the civil war and the Japanese invasion of China had persuaded Liddell to send his pregnant wife and young children to safety in 1941 .
4 He never had his own desk on principle , as he said all desks had chains attached .
5 He never told me any details . ’
6 He never told me those things .
7 He never does them any harm .
8 He never let his thrice-weekly treatment stand in the way of his many activities : while on the dialysis machine he would write newspaper and magazine articles , including his weekly column for the Scottish Catholic Observer and for Flourish , the archdiocesan newspaper .
9 SAMUEL RESHEVSKY , the Polish-born chess player who has died in New York aged 80 , was a celebrated child prodigy , though he never fulfilled his early promise .
10 A graduate in politics , philosophy and economics from Oxford and the Sorbonne , he never allows his natural optimism to put his acute political and economic antenna out of action — he predicted the recession long before others did .
11 Despite this cosmopolitan background he never forgot his humble origins in Ragusa , and proudly affirmed his Slav language and culture when mistakenly referred to as an Italian .
12 His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein .
13 He never did me any harm . ’
14 Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’
15 ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope .
16 A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’
17 Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny !
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