Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] never [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 2 | although I never see her on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 4 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 5 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 6 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 7 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 8 | ‘ You did n't say anything about your brother so I never mentioned him to Emily Grenfell . |
| 9 | I never did anything and I never played with children when I was a child because I did n't want to play with peasants on the estate , so I never did anything except sketching , painting and reading , and I 'm still doing pretty well exactly the same thing , and learning languages . |
| 10 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 11 | ‘ The thing about Elise , ’ Rob resumed succinctly , ‘ was that she never did anything by halves . |
| 12 | Of the three informants ( 10% ) who marked it , at this late stage , as an SF element , two indicated that they only read a small amount of SF , and the other said that she never read anything of the genre . |
| 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 . |
| 14 | She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it . |
| 15 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | he he was so good that he never annoyed anybody by silly remarks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Now Johnny 's dying , and I never took him to Disneyland . ’ |
| 22 | And I never took anyone beyond the lawn , because my friends considered gardens boooo-ring ! — which they were , in Suburbia . |
| 23 | He seemed austere and I never saw him with a hair out of place , or a button undone , but he had a healthy Dutch appetite . |
| 24 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 25 | ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul . |
| 26 | ‘ And I never knew him till now . ’ |
| 27 | I know , I , that and I never said anything about it , but there was many a pheasant which got too close to a tent , wound up in the pot and was cooked by these fellas on these stoves . |
| 28 | This is me thirteenth child and I never had one with any of them . |
| 29 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 30 | Yeah , but looking at college like I 've come from school like , and I never liked it at school . |