Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 2 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 3 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 4 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 5 | Altogether 149 respondents reported that they had never undertaken or funded any HIV prevention work specifically aimed at gay or bisexual men . |
| 6 | Robinson paid tribute to Mrs Ash 's excellent housekeeping , and lamented that she had never become the Mother she was ideally suited to be . |
| 7 | She behaved as she had never thought it would be possible for her to behave . |
| 8 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 9 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 10 | When they were asked afterwards , both Owen and North admitted that they had never imagined ‘ a victory march down the streets of Managua ’ . |
| 11 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 12 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 13 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 14 | It was almost three months since he had been home , but now , standing there , it seemed that he had never been away . |
| 15 | In the bed she lay and imagined that she had never come here , that her life went on , between the shop of Mr Gerard and the flat . |
| 16 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 17 | Pressing his foot to the floor , Nate Springfield drove as he 'd never driven before … |
| 18 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 19 | Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment . |
| 20 | His mother had returned home without him and stated that she had never felt he was really her baby . |
| 21 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
| 22 | Ten patients ( 3.2% ) claimed that they had never been advised to check their urine , a further 39 ( 13% ) never checked their urine , and 53 ( 17% ) checked their urine less than weekly . |
| 23 | On visiting the Landes Park flock , much publicised by the Tesco supermarket advertisements featuring Dudley Moore , David Whiting , on behalf of CIWF , commented that he had never seen chickens kept in better conditions . |
| 24 | But he commented that he has never forgotten what she said . |
| 25 | Another girl commented that she had never ever been told she was beautiful , and believed strongly that all children should be told this by their parents . |
| 26 | To which Robert replied that he had never been interested in photography . |
| 27 | that we had from the day we opened and we 've never found them ! |
| 28 | My mother , who could have held nothing personal against these creatures , remarked that she had never liked them . |
| 29 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 30 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |