Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos the other day Dawn phoned and we never heard . |
| 2 | Ghorbanifar and Secord both remembered North at his wits ' end , pacing back and forth , describing how the contras were dying ; Secord was pestered continually , and admitted that he never sent the rebels ‘ as much as Ollie thought we should ’ . |
| 3 | He revealed that he never watches TV highlights of games he has umpired . |
| 4 | She added that she never saw the suspected occupants of the house . |
| 5 | In the letter quoted above Wordsworth reiterated that he never said that God is Nature , or that Nature and God are the same ; what he ( and Hopkins ) stressed was ‘ the indwelling spirit ’ . |
| 6 | I noticed that he never put on an air of diffidence when , as here , his own work was being cited . |
| 7 | Who cared if he never rose any higher than H.S.O. ? |
| 8 | From the beginning , I never asked and he never said . |
| 9 | I liked her , we were starting to go out , then all this happened and I never saw her again . |
| 10 | ‘ But nothing happened and I never heard from them . ’ |
| 11 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 12 | He must have heard what happened because he never came back . |
| 13 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |
| 14 | and I think , I think the difficulty with that is until you know it , as one person said to Alex in front of me ah well , we , we did exactly what you required and you never brought any audience , there was no audience , do you remember that ? |
| 15 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 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 | Anselm associated himself with their point of view whole-heartedly , though the community felt that he never did quite enough . |
| 18 | He stressed that he never intended to have sex with her and said he never used force or inflicted injury on the girl . |
| 19 | ‘ But they let you walk in and take his place before they even knew that you never laugh at anything , even if it 's funny . ’ |
| 20 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 21 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 22 | She was not going to start lecturing him now and , in any case , insisted that she never saw her role in life as a reformer . |
| 23 | But er at any rate , we managed and he never asked after that . |
| 24 | He was driven by a devil that he never knew but he never stopped fighting , a maker of his own myths , Celtic , Faustian , an Icarus and a Don Juan , coming out from his beloved Wales like a mystical warrior to rove the world for conquests , forever unsettled , forever daring . |
| 25 | We never knew because he never said , never offered mitigating circumstances . |
| 26 | This was quite untenable to Barratt and Taylor and in a letter Taylor complained that there never had been such a requirement in any mining lease and any experienced miner would reject it as attempting to enforce an impossibility . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I remembered that you never liked Eleanor , ’ Julius said in a soft voice . |
| 29 | He answered that we never know what a certain piece of puzzle is until we see the rest and put the piece in place . ) |
| 30 | you see , he , he he can he cancelled cos his name came up and then he cancelled and he never heard anything and went a bit er we told him about Doreen , he said , oh I better go down and see what 's happened er he went down and then about three minutes later he got this erm card yes er , this week to say that come in , but , before you come in ring to see if there 's a bed . |