Example sentences of "[that] [pron] never [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the people who actually made the series , but I have to say that I never thought his career was channelled in the right direction . |
| 2 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 3 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 4 | She was not going to start lecturing him now and , in any case , insisted that she never saw her role in life as a reformer . |
| 5 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 6 | Was it because the Holy Ones feared that the key to this inner knowledge and the inner voice would be misused that they never revealed their knowledge ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Modest in the sense that he never proclaimed his talents — and they were real and varied : he was , I have heard , a very good businessman , and I know him to have been a first rate chess player and a notable painter . ’ |
| 9 | My book shows that Modigliani was not that gloomy pessimist of morbid temperament who ‘ destroyed himself with as much care as he put into constructing his talent ’ , but that he never doubted his worth nor the imminence of success . |
| 10 | Corbett told polic that he never lost his temper with the child and never smacked her . |