Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 2 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 3 | Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it . |
| 4 | And now I 've never smoked a bugger since before breakfast , never |
| 5 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 6 | Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others . |
| 7 | I would not normally expect this from a Severum — but then I have never heard of a Severum eating Halfbeaks . |
| 8 | We had stopped there once or twice , but as yet I had never been inside . |
| 9 | As yet I have never fallen off a roof , although I have experienced the odd flutter of the heart when a ladder slips . |