Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] never [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much of him was drawn into his eyes that he never heard the drumming of hooves cross the plateau from the ramp , or the rattle of the chains as the drawbridge was lowered in haste . |
| 2 | They do all sorts of erm projects that we never did . |
| 3 | In its post-election issue , the Independent on Sunday offered a list of phrases that it never wanted to hear again . |
| 4 | She had endowed the marriage ( and he could never really like the fellow ) most extravagantly out of her invested money , rather than taking a dip among the jewels that she never wore . |
| 5 | Wh what was it common , I mean you were talking there about people would buy things that they never bought before ? |
| 6 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 7 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | There was a leather armchair and kitchen chairs which matched , and brass firedogs and a fender — in fact things that you never saw under the same roof in our district . |
| 11 | If so it is all the greater tribute to his qualities that he never took a step to force the issue or to encourage abdication . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a ring of thorn trees that we never cut , d'ye see ? for they said 't would annoy the Little People . ’ |
| 14 | And a fight on my hands that you never experienced . ’ |
| 15 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 16 | ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising . |
| 17 | Such was the austerity of his habits that it never entered his head himself to have any kind of formal dinner in which I could join . |
| 18 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |