Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He revealed that he never watches TV highlights of games he has umpired . |
| 3 | She added that she never saw the suspected occupants of the house . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | I noticed that he never put on an air of diffidence when , as here , his own work was being cited . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Anselm associated himself with their point of view whole-heartedly , though the community felt that he never did quite enough . |
| 9 | He stressed that he never intended to have sex with her and said he never used force or inflicted injury on the girl . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I remembered that you never liked Eleanor , ’ Julius said in a soft voice . |
| 17 | He answered that we never know what a certain piece of puzzle is until we see the rest and put the piece in place . ) |
| 18 | For this reason , and because many of the young women I spoke to said that they never saw images of young women who looked anything like themselves , the book includes photographs , taken by Sally Feldt . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
| 21 | Jeremiah experienced God as a pain that invaded his every limb , and Muhammad said that he never received a revelation without feeling that his soul was being torn from his body . |
| 22 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 23 | If Craig Charleston said that he never wanted to see another Spitfire project , I would not be surprised , I 'll wager that he does though ! |
| 24 | She said that it never occurred to her or her husband that her village would be harmed or its people endangered . |
| 25 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 26 | The ‘ uprising ’ came from the forwards who moaned that they never had anything to do . |