Example sentences of "never [vb past] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People offered to raise whatever sum of money needed to keep the Community Radio Station on the air ; even those who never cared or listened much , now felt that 1OAB must be preserved ! |
| 2 | She never moved or relaxed her watchfulness ; but in her very stillness there was something of violence , as though a touch might cause her to spring into startling and daunting life . |
| 3 | Oh , she never shouted or threw things at him . |
| 4 | He never helped or joined in any of the village activities and had ignored all the signs that a war was approaching . |
| 5 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |
| 6 | But at the same time he composed a Third Concerto which he never played or published . |
| 7 | I did n't attend the dinner , for which in a way I 'm now sorry , and Pound never forgot or forgave . |
| 8 | I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer . |
| 9 | I knew I could be happy for ever with these sensible , gentle creatures , who never lied or stole , in a country which had no disease , no crime , no wars . |
| 10 | And er I never heard or had any more ways than ordinary . |
| 11 | But a glass key I never saw or heard of and can not imagine what use it might be ; it would shiver in any lock . ’ |
| 12 | There were , of course , one or two things that police officers kept to themselves , that the public never saw or heard , and that with the death of the Police Union there were no channels to articulate . |
| 13 | We never saw or heard from her again . ’ |
| 14 | Finer I never saw or tasted from Barbados or better cured . |
| 15 | She never questioned or regretted her position . |
| 16 | which is true enough , it never did or does ; |
| 17 | Her limbs seemed lifeless , and she never spoke or uttered a sound . |
| 18 | Harry never compromised or cheapened herself . |