Example sentences of "[that] he never [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 2 | She had to ensure that he never touched her again . |
| 3 | Cezar , Bailey 's Brazilian butler , later recalled that he never knew what to expect in those days . |
| 4 | After a few false starts a whole vocabulary and syntax that he never knew he knew begins to well up from his old-fashioned black portable . |
| 5 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 6 | He was the quintessential film star in that he never played anyone else . |
| 7 | His Central American agents and contacts were patted on the back , or sent into the field , with the words ‘ Vaya con Dios ’ , ( Go with God ) ; Calero remembered that he never left him without them . |
| 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 | The bottom room , with Its two huge grinding-wheels of burr-granite propped against the wall and its lingering smell of flour , still held an air of mystery , of time held in abeyance , of a place bereft of its purpose and meaning , so that he never entered it without a slight sense of desolation . |
| 10 | And once Julius had made his mind up about something , Jessamy knew only too well that he never changed it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | he he was so good that he never annoyed anybody by silly remarks . |
| 13 | Corbett told polic that he never lost his temper with the child and never smacked her . |
| 14 | She said it courteously , using the same polite professional tone that he was using himself , all the time hating the fact that he never teased her now . |
| 15 | It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti . |