Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think I 'm very nice , but even on my best days I never look at myself like that . |
| 32 | For two years I never went anywhere without my gun . |
| 33 | In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink . |
| 34 | For many years I never had a proper studio , just a room in the house , and , of course , I never work on the spot . |
| 35 | As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating . |
| 36 | Well in them days you never knew what might happen next . |
| 37 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 38 | ‘ What I Would n't Give ’ , besides being utterly forgettable , contained the interesting line , ‘ There 's my Smiths ' tapes you never wanted to hear/ Throw them away/Morrissey in the bin . ’ |
| 39 | Of course most of today 's catalogues are far more colourful , but often some of the mixtures include colours you never find when you grow them yourself or the plants turn out sparse and spindly . |
| 40 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 41 | In those days we never danced . |
| 42 | or places we never saw , the idea |
| 43 | That 's another thing they used to do in those days they never do now , a lot of men when they bought a pair of boots , they had them what they called plumped . |
| 44 | The Japanese male seems to think that women have only recently developed skills and abilities they never had before . |
| 45 | There were boxes of coloured crayons and wax , lead pencils and paints in colours he never knew existed . |
| 46 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
| 47 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 48 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 49 | I ca n't answer this question , because I was never without anything I needed — I have , however , done things I never dreamed of doing , like having a tv in my bedroom when the war broke out . |
| 50 | Jean added : ‘ I was doing things I never dreamed I would have done . |
| 51 | I found muscles I never knew existed . |
| 52 | I had aches in muscles I never knew I owned . |
| 53 | OVER 56 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE CLASH |
| 54 | It usually ends up like a cross between The Sun 's ‘ Things You Never Knew ’ column and The Times Literary Review . |
| 55 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 56 | and er these are things you never forget you know . |
| 57 | Why had it had to be Travis McKenna , of all people , who had made her experience things she never had before ? |
| 58 | There are memories you never forget — and they are revolting memories — and here they come again . |
| 59 | And like so many Greeks she never accepted her exile . |
| 60 | Brass rods , tethering the red carpet to the flights of the staircase , were importances she never saw neglected . |