Example sentences of "[that] she never [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She was so busy talking to another woman , who was weighing onions , that she never noticed what the wee fellow was doing .
2 It was like the pain from an old wound , so familiar that she never noticed it until she deliberately picked at the scar .
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 ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up .
5 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 .
6 That she never told you ? ’ asked David .
7 The cold and dreadful pain that she never told herself was jealousy went through Alice .
8 Neither of them seemed to realise that she never planned it .
9 She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him .
10 Well , I 'll tell you something , if it is , we 'll have many more happy moments like it , because I feel I 've just found you and I feel sorry for Mother that she never found you . ’
11 ‘ The thing about Elise , ’ Rob resumed succinctly , ‘ was that she never did anything by halves .
12 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 .
13 Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband .
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