Example sentences of "said that [pers pn] [vb past] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that they had never forgotten her ; nor had he forgot ten Slavko , with whom he used to play . |
| 2 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 3 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 4 | He also said that he had never talked in terms of prospective violence nor had he suggested that ‘ any of these people ’ were in any way inferior to anybody else . |
| 5 | He said that he had never heard of ‘ the place ’ [ the seat of Compton or Burnett ancestors ] . |
| 6 | If he said that he had never entertained a suspicion , it would be a lie . |
| 7 | Numbers may , of course , bring increased power and in the Crofter case Viscount Maugham said that he had never felt any difficulty in seeing ‘ the great difference between the acts of one person and the acts in combination of two or of a multitude , ’ but , as Viscount Simon L.C. remarked in the same case : |
| 8 | Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double . |
| 9 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |