Example sentences of "[that] [pron] never [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just that I never expected it to happen to me . ’ |
| 2 | I 've got a piece of artwork on the floor that I never thought I 'd see . |
| 3 | You brought me happiness that I never thought I would know again in this world , and you 've added to it every day . ’ |
| 4 | He was one of the people who actually made the series , but I have to say that I never thought his career was channelled in the right direction . |
| 5 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 6 | I 'm glad that I never told him how unhappy I was then . |
| 7 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 8 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 9 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 10 | So I have discovered reserves of strength that I never knew I had . ’ |
| 11 | Not only have I learned that soon I will not only be responsible for myself but a small vulnerable child who for many years to come will be under my protection , but I have also gained an inner strength that I never knew I was capable of having . |
| 12 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 13 | It was for that reason that I never showed him my poem ‘ To Thomas Hardy in 1940 ’ . |
| 14 | She was so busy talking to another woman , who was weighing onions , that she never noticed what the wee fellow was doing . |
| 15 | It was like the pain from an old wound , so familiar that she never noticed it until she deliberately picked at the scar . |
| 16 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 17 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ That she never told you ? ’ asked David . |
| 20 | The cold and dreadful pain that she never told herself was jealousy went through Alice . |
| 21 | Neither of them seemed to realise that she never planned it . |
| 22 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 23 | Well , I 'll tell you something , if it is , we 'll have many more happy moments like it , because I feel I 've just found you and I feel sorry for Mother that she never found you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The thing about Elise , ’ Rob resumed succinctly , ‘ was that she never did anything by halves . |
| 25 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 26 | Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband . |
| 27 | Well , perhaps one could believe that , but not- ’ Her voice dropped further now and her head came towards Peggy , saying , ‘ Not that you never bathed her , never had bathed her , and that she got in the bath with her father every night . |
| 28 | She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it . |
| 29 | In everything , a compromise is the answer and by not expecting the horse to go too close to a potentially spooky object , kidding the horse that you never intended him to go near it , will avert an argument or tension . |
| 30 | Arthur spoke entirely without irony , although he was clearly aware that it was so friendly to some , so open-armed , that they never left it . |