Example sentences of "[pers pn] never [vb past] any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me .
2 The acid test was when I told him why I never had any money to spend , but he was very understanding .
3 I never had any money to buy her the things she wanted . ’
4 I never had any money erm that would help me to get off benefit , I was caught in the benefit trap and now I 've been able to get a part time job , my husba ex-husband 's paying a reasonable amount and my children are better off .
5 After that I never had any illness .
6 About nationalisation I never had any doubt .
7 I never had any fight with you , Luke .
8 I never had any education since I was fourteen so I used the very simplest things when I find the very simple things can do very complicated jobs .
9 And I never had any problem at all when I was there but some of the keepers had .
10 Erm , I never had any idea as to what I might do when I left school , in fact erm , apart from basket making and er one or two manual skills of that sort erm , there was n't much available .
11 I never met him and , after what I heard about him , I never had any ambition so to do .
12 I never had any practice at anything or , and I should imagine they did , I do n't know , I do n't know how it worked
13 ‘ But I never had any inkling that something like this would happen . ’
14 I wrote to Mr. Andrew there , but I do n't know if he ever got the letter , for I never had any answer .
15 After the match in Boston , Massachusetts , Mr Taylor said : ‘ It was always a match over which I never had any control .
16 Graham Taylor : I never had any control
17 " I never had any pocket money , he spent it all .
18 I never had any intention of remaining here , though I have grown to love it . ’
19 But I never had any terror of the dark , and was not like Shakespeare 's man , ‘ in the night , imagining some fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear … ’
20 I never had any trouble with George .
21 I never thought any harm would come to Sir Charles .
22 I must say I never saw any sign of it at all .
23 I never saw any acknowledgement nor received a word of thanks .
24 I believe Vigilant was a better seaboat , but I never served any time on her in adverse conditions to find out .
25 ‘ Oh , thank goodness , it is all settled , dear , I never wanted any trouble , I do so hate trouble . ’
26 And I never found any embarrassment there because there was I always saw the wom woman , you could always see a woman chemist .
27 She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival .
28 She never had any politics because she was n't allowed to .
29 Professionally , though , she never had any cause to doubt his judgement or medical skill .
30 Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’
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