Example sentences of "[noun] she never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life . |
| 2 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 3 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 4 | Anger welled up in Juliet , and boiled over into words she never meant to say . |
| 5 | And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing . |
| 6 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 7 | When she came back after she went out there too his wedding she never mentioned it once again . |
| 8 | Mrs Symons was , as a matter of fact , a frequent visitor to this house before the war ; indeed , she was among the most popular as far as the staff were concerned due to the kind appreciation she never shied from showing . |
| 9 | She was saying things like ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ 'doesn t make sense ’ , hut she never came to the point at all . ’ |
| 10 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 11 | She told them that apart from a white jumper she never wore the colour at all . |
| 12 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 13 | ‘ I see you as a sister for my daughter — the sister she never had . |
| 14 | He always took Celia flowers and sometimes books or magazines , but he had come to the conclusion she never read them . |
| 15 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 16 | Why had it had to be Travis McKenna , of all people , who had made her experience things she never had before ? |
| 17 | Constance stepped out wearing her first dress , called ‘ Charming Surprise ’ , a name she never forgot . |
| 18 | Eva said , " When I went to Africa she never mentioned once that I should n't go . |
| 19 | And like so many Greeks she never accepted her exile . |
| 20 | But if today Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the few women to have been admitted to the art historical canon under the banner of ‘ greatness ’ , in her day she never won the critical acclaim she sought . |
| 21 | It was wonderful to rinse off the lightly scented lather and with it the heat and grime and terror of a day she never wanted to repeat as long as she lived . |
| 22 | Brass rods , tethering the red carpet to the flights of the staircase , were importances she never saw neglected . |
| 23 | Once off the island of Majorca she never wanted to be involved with it again . |
| 24 | Of their own volition , her hands tightened in his hair , forcing his head forwards , and she responded to his kiss with a passion she never knew was within her . |
| 25 | Mary Newport , who spent her life in children 's homes and with foster parents , met up with three sisters she never knew she had . |
| 26 | During her too short life she never ceased to be Anglican ; but she was a Socialist , and a suffragette , and religion for her came to mean , not so much creed or piety , as having a lively social conscience . |
| 27 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 28 | My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all . |
| 29 | One thing she never mentioned , and it remained a mystery to me . |
| 30 | The tone of the last sentence taught Constance a lesson she never forgot . |