Example sentences of "[that] [pron] never [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was so used to his bullying that I never thought of hitting him back . |
| 3 | And he did wonderful things with my clockwork trains that I never thought of doing . ’ |
| 4 | It was fortunate for you that I never insisted on accompanying you . ’ |
| 5 | The Sun had all sorts of details about my private life that I never knew about . |
| 6 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 7 | She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions . |
| 8 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Henrietta , smiling meaninglessly , confirming Liz 's view that she never listened to a word that Liz said to her . |
| 10 | She complained to the madam that she never went into that room . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 13 | And er another thing that we never did in those school er very very very rarely did a boy erm oh what did we use to call it ? |
| 14 | It was a magnificent fightback and such was Welsh distress that they never looked like preventing it . |
| 15 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 16 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 17 | So strong was her need to talk to Simon , that it never occurred to her that he might not actually live there . |
| 18 | She said that it never occurred to her or her husband that her village would be harmed or its people endangered . |
| 19 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 20 | He says that it never occured to him to apply for planning permission . |
| 21 | He says that it never occured to him to apply for planning permission . |
| 22 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 23 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
| 24 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 25 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 26 | Associated with this , I feel , was the fact that he never suffered from jet-lag . |
| 27 | He could have slain people with his questioning , except that he never listened to the answers . |
| 28 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 29 | Spiers was trained in the Gothic school , but Bolton , who knew him well , insists that he never referred to any buildings of his own and little is apparently known about his work as an architect . |
| 30 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |