Example sentences of "they never [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Bill Larnach always took great pains with his lectures and , although he is an accomplished speaker , they never became monologues .
2 We gave them codenames and radio frequencies they never got lists out of us .
3 He found himself bitterly telling Graus of the horrors which he had witnessed during a war in which the Israelis still claim they never committed atrocities .
4 They never took prisoners .
5 Their only chance of such would be to marry a wealthy man , because as source A also describes , before 1919 no woman was allowed a complete education , and therefore they never achieved positions in highly paid jobs , such as lawyers .
6 For this reason , and because many of the young women I spoke to said that they never saw images of young women who looked anything like themselves , the book includes photographs , taken by Sally Feldt .
7 It was only the ITV productions that were not led in this way , except Thames who , although they never had women in their top hierarchy , have always had extremely good women heading production teams .
8 They never had muffins in the nursery .
9 Miss Walker was a mature lady when she married , if my memory serves me correctly , and they never had children of their own .
10 From Morris Grange they hunted assiduously — their joint passion since they never had children of their own .
11 ‘ And they never had children ? ’
12 They never asked questions but they were inevitably acquiring information that could be fatal .
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