Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i never " in BNC.

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1 We never went to the pictures and I never had any pictures on the wall .
2 In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’
3 Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her .
4 This last pony I had , from Mrs to Soham church , she used to do it in twenty minutes and I never held the reins .
5 I never knowingly took any steroids and I never would . ’
6 ‘ I use herbs , spices and concentrated flavours and I never give biscuits or sweets to the kids .
7 ‘ Course , there 's badgers up in the banks but I never heard that name — ’ She broke off .
8 Over the past year just about every interview I have done has included a question about the galleries but I never thought there would be a problem .
9 I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others .
10 I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience .
11 All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place .
12 They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again .
13 They make me want a lot of things that I never had .
14 He 's fourteen in July I think , what 's a name gave me the dates and I never ruddy well look at them .
15 He says ; I thought I would not make the mistake with strangers but I never acyually thought when it happened it would be so convincing .
16 Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it .
17 There was never any danger of that , because I 'm terrified of needles and I never wanted to make drugs my life 's work .
18 I use soap and water , I never cleanse or tone but I do use moisturisers and I never , ever go out in the winter without make-up .
19 The exercise of skills in the workforce as a mature returner has been a rewarding experience in so many ways but I never expected it to test my personal standards or challenge my courage to stand up against what I believe is wrong .
20 As Dussie Nell Davis , a US majorette coach , commented almost twenty years ago , ‘ Sex is a word I have never used with my girls and I never will .
21 He had a great many Jewish friends and I never heard the faintest suggestion of hostility to the Jews coming from him .
22 ‘ Her flashing her tits and I never knew she was still at school .
23 Frankie always got away with cheeking his elders but I never did .
24 I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected .
25 ‘ When I was growing up , I never thought about my looks and I never seem to get used to talking about my features .
26 send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something
27 me clothes money as well , I 'm supposed to buy clothes but I never do , I always buy C Ds .
28 ‘ I thought the horses I was riding had each way chances but I never expected four winners .
29 I never loved others because I never really loved myself .
30 Crombies were skimpy Chesterfields and I never knew a kid to have one made out of real Crombie cloth .
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