Example sentences of "i never [vb past] anything " in BNC.
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1 | more I did I never got anything for but that was easy for the dockers and easy for me . |
2 | got erm , well we never got anywhere , I never got anything back and it was just a total , I was a guinea pig |
3 | It 's a very stiff exam I must admit , when I look back on it , and we all had a a day off to go to the at or the Grammar school , sit this exam er and since I never heard anything I 'm assuming I failed . |
4 | ‘ I never heard anything so ridiculous in my life , ’ said Betty . |
5 | I never heard anything like that . ’ |
6 | I never wore anything that hugged my body . |
7 | ‘ I never expected anything else . |
8 | I never touched anything but soda-water and so I realize how other people played on her drunkenness and she was so … half-charming and such a fool ’ . |
9 | I never meant anything like that . |
10 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
11 | ‘ I never imagined anything else . |
12 | I never had anything to do with the Co-op Women 's Guilds or the Labour Party . |
13 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
16 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
17 | I never knew anything about the facts of life — I did n't know until far too late . |
18 | I never knew anything could grow that quick . |
19 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
20 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
21 | … delighted , enchanted , amused and interested , and I think I never saw anything more beautiful and gay than Paris — or more splendid than all the palaces . |
22 | I never saw anything like it . |
23 | ‘ I never saw anything like it . |
24 | I never saw anything in black and white . ’ |
25 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
26 | ‘ But no , I never saw anything like that . ’ |
27 | I never saw anything , I just heard my father telling my mother — ’ She broke off abruptly , one hand rising guiltily to her mouth . |
28 | Oh I was stuck on the quoits , I never saw anything except |
29 | I never accepted anything from Catherine , for what she did n't know about poisons was n't worth knowing . |
30 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |