Example sentences of "[conj] he never [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is only fair , however , to place on record that he never felt that a tiny measure of diplomacy was worth trying .
2 He told magistrates at Cheltenham that he never retaliated if he sensed trouble in his work .
3 And what really annoyed me was that he never drank and certainly did n't go a bundle on gambling .
4 He was driven by a devil that he never knew but he never stopped fighting , a maker of his own myths , Celtic , Faustian , an Icarus and a Don Juan , coming out from his beloved Wales like a mystical warrior to rove the world for conquests , forever unsettled , forever daring .
5 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 ’ .
6 ‘ When the State usurps the functions of the family ’ … and consoled himself with the thought that he never pontificated unless he was drunk .
7 This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ?
8 His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up .
9 He launched his poems of silk down the Yellow River ; and he never knew that his silken ships would sail on for ever .
10 Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort .
11 and he talk , he loves , he likes me now , cos he never did and he says he .
12 It looked like a woman , but he never imagined that it could be his wife until she came close and he saw it was Tess .
13 He says he realised something terrible was going to happen , but he never thought that they would actually set light to the car .
14 But he never forgot that for almost a year he sank like a stone and would have disappeared without trace but for outside intervention .
15 As he never married and had no relations apart from us and one other person , my father always hoped we would inherit uncle John 's money .
16 This background influenced all his thinking about man in society , for he never forgot that human beings were biological organisms .
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