Example sentences of "he never [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down .
2 ‘ I bet he never said such rubbish . ’
3 He never said another word until the end when he told me he would be going out at 8 AM with the same four-ball and he would see me then .
4 Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’
5 Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’
6 Yet he never retracted this avowal ; nor — given what he meant by it — did he need to .
7 Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value .
8 Dawn Run ( twice ) Street Angel and Atha Cliath were all Mullins winners there but he never had much luck in the National .
9 He never had much enthusiasm for making money .
10 In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning .
11 He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others .
12 It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’
13 But he never had any money — Will always paid for the beer .
14 And er so he never had any sleep that night , well that was the that 's a story about them days .
15 And he never had any hesitation in using his reputation to reach the most unapproachable people personally if he thought that conservation would benefit as a result .
16 The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid …
17 Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset .
18 ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future .
19 he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility .
20 he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ .
21 ‘ Much too fast and he never takes any notice when I tell him to go slower , so I do my knitting .
22 If he never kicks another goal for England SIMON HODGKINSON will have the consolation of knowing that nothing , least of all ball-doctoring , can damage his figures .
23 Consequently he never achieved any position of responsibility .
24 As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’
25 He never got another dog to replace Captain .
26 As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction .
27 He never reached such eminence again and had caddied , less reliably and more cantankerously , for a succession of middling golfers .
28 After all , Niki did too on occasion — until it brought Niki a recurrence of the Nürburgring nightmare and he never touched another joint in his life .
29 He never forgot that sacrifice .
30 His ferocious anti-Christianity , in no way the creature of fashion , never waned even in old age ; and he never forgot that literature is about something , and that it matters whether that something is true or false .
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