Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nickname is Crash but thankfully he has never done that . |
| 2 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 3 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 4 | A Both will establish separate homes , but constitutionally it has never mattered whether the Prince and Princess of Wales were happy and together or not . |
| 5 | But obviously you 've never known love . |
| 6 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 7 | It 's always been my intention , but somehow it 's never happened . |
| 8 | She should have thrown it out years ago but somehow she 'd never had the heart . |
| 9 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 10 | It was ridiculous , but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children . |
| 11 | Her husband , up to the time of his death , had been a miner although there had been occasions when he had made scarcely any wage — but still he had never sent his children to the mine . |
| 12 | We regret the consequences to the communities of Darlington and Spennymoor of the industry 's terminal decline but then we have never thought that having factories which make a product which kills people was ever anything to be proud of . |
| 13 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 14 | Werewolf stayed upright , but then he 'd never been as close to him as I had . |
| 15 | So she judged him — she always felt impelled to judge Simon , measure him — he was a grabber , but then he had never had anything so far , and also he had daring and enjoyed himself so much , so very much , he loved the suppers and the singing . |
| 16 | Joshua did not think that ‘ Worthy ’ Evans was the sort to stray , but then he had never met his secretary . |
| 17 | Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others . |
| 18 | I would not normally expect this from a Severum — but then I have never heard of a Severum eating Halfbeaks . |
| 19 | " Your letters were always too short , Sara , and not detailed enough , but then you 've never been good at spilling all your thoughts in speech or writing , have you ? |
| 20 | It seemed unlikely that he could be as devastated by the death of a single patient as Julia had made out in her letters , but then she had never really understood him . |
| 21 | But then she had never met a man like Damian Flint before ; a man who was as masculine as she was feminine . |
| 22 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 23 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |