Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am . |
| 3 | If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty . |
| 4 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 5 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 6 | An elderly man whom I had never met before came up to me to offer help . |
| 7 | He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’ |
| 8 | Oh God I can st I can still remember Auntie Edie and her mouth full of rotten teeth , oh dear , whom I 'd never met before |
| 9 | Abse puts his faith in Heseltine , whom I have never been able to take seriously as a politician . |
| 10 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 11 | I 've got all his family some of them I 've never met . |
| 12 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
| 13 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 14 | You know I I I 've never I |
| 15 | I , I , I do n't and I , I I 've never liked |
| 16 | I sometimes wish I did but I I 've never done it in the morning . |
| 17 | Why would someone I 've never met want to kill me ? |
| 18 | I do the same if someone I 've never seen comes up and uses one of my names . |
| 19 | I 'm being hassled by a gorilla called Nevil — somebody I 've never even met . |
| 20 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 21 | Somebody I 'd never seen before said hello and |
| 22 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth . |
| 24 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 25 | ‘ We had to do manoeuvrability tests in three different cars , including a Cavalier automatic and a Corsa which I 'd never driven before . |
| 26 | Shut behind glass doors on one wall were copper pots and jelly moulds which I 'd never seen used . |
| 27 | And so I had to drag the coal scuttle up there , I was faced with that , and chop the sticks , which I 'd never done before . |
| 28 | . Erm but then we slept under every hedge , I think , along the south coast , till we lost our machine guns , collected anti-tank guns , and eventually were transferred to the Royal Artillery , but still with this county pride of Devon , which I 'd never met before . |
| 29 | But in a brand new fitted dress into which I 'd climbed only two hours earlier , and in which I 'd never attempted the sitting position let alone … well to cut a long and visually absurd story short , I was about as likely to have a pee in that dress as I was to share a bagel with Adnan Kashoggi . |
| 30 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |