Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
| 2 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 3 | They were very quiet and sad at first , because I would be leaving them , but I promised I would never forget them and would often return to visit them . |
| 4 | So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes . |
| 5 | How this deficit occurred I shall never know , but in some strange way the Medical Clerk was held responsible . |
| 6 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 7 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 8 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 9 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 10 | I never could decide who was right , socialists — even revolutionaries — or the arch-capitalists , and it seemed we 'd never find out in Britain because whatever way the popular vote went it never really brought any real change of direction . |
| 11 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
| 12 | I presume he believed they would never hear of the second marriage . |
| 13 | The doctors believed he would never see again . |
| 14 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 15 | ‘ Your father repealed the law making you his natural successor once he realized you 'd never follow in his footsteps . |
| 16 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 17 | I vowed I would never use anything else , for in that time this old faithful has found thousands of coins and artefacts for me — some very rare . |
| 18 | I did it , though I vowed I would never work that fast again . ’ |
| 19 | I erm I always vowed I 'd never let erm , never let anything get to me like that again |
| 20 | There and then Robbie vowed she would never pose another question on the topic . |
| 21 | That was the night Ellie vowed she would never cry in front of anyone again as she lay among the boxes . |
| 22 | He was extremely rude to a lot of people , some of whom vowed they would never speak to him again . |
| 23 | No matter what happened he would never let himself become like the brutal , foul-mouthed McEllhoney . |
| 24 | When I confronted him outside the refectory and insisted that the resident be allowed to finish his meal , he exploded in a torrent of foul language and vowed he would never return . |
| 25 | His next film was very laid back and one , he admitted , which was the clearest-cut job of acting for the money he had ever done … and he vowed he would never do that again . |
| 26 | Coun Richmond then called on the Tory group to support the Labour measure but claimed it would never have been proposed without the prompt of his motion . |
| 27 | The sceptics at GM reckoned it could never work — the motor would overheat and no battery could store enough energy to turn over a car 's engine . |
| 28 | Dawn is particularly inquisitive , and I soon discovered she would never fly properly in a new area without investigating it first , even if I was holding out food for her . |
| 29 | I heard you would never acknowledge her . |
| 30 | Dotty protested it would never happen , never , and could n't help smiling . |