Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 2 | Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date . |
| 3 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 4 | Dugan has claimed that she never had sex with clients . |
| 5 | ( In fact , if one reads her work carefully , one notices that she never speaks of God , but rather of people 's concept of God , which may lead them on in their striving for justice . ) |
| 6 | You always say that you never get two children the same , they 're |
| 7 | First you find out that she 's dead ; then , a while later , I say that I never killed a single patient . |
| 8 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |
| 9 | It is reported that he never performed an operation without washing his hands . |
| 10 | Does not that remark demonstrate that we never had an independent nuclear deterrent , as neither President Yeltsin nor anyone else in the Soviet Union accepted it as a deterrent ; and that we have poured tens of billions of pounds down the drain trying to maintain that mystique ? |
| 11 | Yet Evans-Pritchard records that he never met a Zande who admitted to practising witchcraft , although when pressed Zande might acknowledge that witchcraft substance could act on its own account , perhaps even against the conscious intentions of the person concerned . |
| 12 | ‘ A most convenient baby , this , ’ he remarked lightly , ‘ seeing that she never cries , or does anything to provoke her parents — whatever they do to her . ’ |
| 13 | Spiers was trained in the Gothic school , but Bolton , who knew him well , insists that he never referred to any buildings of his own and little is apparently known about his work as an architect . |
| 14 | Ghorbanifar and Secord both remembered North at his wits ' end , pacing back and forth , describing how the contras were dying ; Secord was pestered continually , and admitted that he never sent the rebels ‘ as much as Ollie thought we should ’ . |
| 15 | Cezar , Bailey 's Brazilian butler , later recalled that he never knew what to expect in those days . |
| 16 | He revealed that he never watches TV highlights of games he has umpired . |
| 17 | Jess had noticed that she never spoke directly to the old man . |
| 18 | The age-old tradition of having one colour per make helps , but the variety of uses to which tractors are put should ensure that they never become facsimiles of each other . |
| 19 | She added that she never saw the suspected occupants of the house . |
| 20 | He says that it never occured to him to apply for planning permission . |
| 21 | He says that it never occured to him to apply for planning permission . |
| 22 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
| 23 | Er , she says that she 's er , there 's absolutely nothing doing just at the moment , erm , but she says that she never knows the time when she will be called upon to you know , be asked to do a trip , but |
| 24 | This dissatisfaction may be reflected in the finding that almost 40% of all the men in our sample masturbate at least once a week and only 1 in 5 says that he never does so . |
| 25 | I hope that we never reach the position that I have sometimes , although not often , met in my constituency , when I have received a phone call from a private home to the effect that it could no longer keep a patient who had perhaps become doubly incontinent . |
| 26 | The point , so I thought , was to have one in case of emergency , and hope that it never came out of its pouch . |
| 27 | Having seen the decline in public services over the past decade , I hope that he never has that opportunity . |
| 28 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 29 | In the letter quoted above Wordsworth reiterated that he never said that God is Nature , or that Nature and God are the same ; what he ( and Hopkins ) stressed was ‘ the indwelling spirit ’ . |
| 30 | Was it because the Holy Ones feared that the key to this inner knowledge and the inner voice would be misused that they never revealed their knowledge ? |