`` McLish '', he said as he kicked the horse into motion, `` I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again ''.

If I'd been careful it never woulda '' -- he stopped abruptly.

I never thought I'd live to hear people chuckle and say `` zounds ''!!

I'd had patients who'd refused surgery before, of course, but never one who didn't show, in one way or another, the reason why.

I'd never even petted with a boy, and after I met Johnnie he never touched me for the longest while, not until I all but threw myself at him.

I had never liked snakes much, I still had that kind of quick panic that I'd had as a child whenever I saw one, but this snake was clean and bright and very beautiful.

He also wrote that Hill " was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments whatsoever ... and the only reason why she'd held a job in the Reagan administration was because I'd given it to her.

" I'd never had a boyfriend in my life.

Until then I'd never met what I'd call a real rock ' n ' roll hero before.

Although Fulks never says her name, the line " When the little one took the mike, I knew I'd fallen " suggests the particular " Bangle girl " he pines for is Susanna Hoffs, the shortest member of the group and frequent lead singer.

Another such story revolved around a man who won an inconsequential amount of money on the pools, and began living an inordinately lavish lifestyle (" I bought the wife a new cover for her ironing board " being one such example of his largesse ), which collapsed when the money inevitably ran out, much to his chagrin (" I wish I'd never set eyes on the money ").

" I never imagined I'd still be putting words into Zippy's fast-moving mouth some 38 years later.

Brian May stated: " I'd never seen anything like that in my life and it wasn't calculated either.

" met her at the 7-11 Now I'm in 7th heaven Tell me, tell me Can this be true I never thought I'd ever meet a girl like you.

Through serving in the ranks I discovered the basic wit of my fellow man-whom basically, to tell the truth, I'd never met before.

I'd never have written Top Hat without him.

The good honest silhouette maker H Müller had sung Leopoldl's praises to your brother, so he found out that the child is with me, which I'd never told him: so this was how the good idea occurred to him or perhaps his wife.

Crumb said, about when he first saw Wilson's work " The content was something like I'd never seen before, ... a nightmare vision of hell-on-earth ...." And " Suddenly my own work seemed insipid ...."

I would audition for things and I'd always be the second choice – studios never wanted to hire me and I wasn't losing the parts to big box office actresses but to ones who I guess people felt differently about.

" That was the most challenging part of the role ," she later recalled in an interview, " I'd never sung professionally.

I've certainly never written anything that says as much and I'd be most impressed if he ever surpasses it himself.

And also his vision of a new kind of human being that was going to be formed in this country — although he never specifically said Chinese — ethnic Chinese also — I'd like to think he meant all kinds of people.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

`` 'nother minute I'd have been fine.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

I had been among the top third in my class at N.Y.U., had wanted desperately to go to medical school, but I'd run out of money and energy at the same time.

My lights would have been a giveaway if I'd tried to shadow him in the conventional manner.

Moreover, I'd have lost him if it hadn't been for the electronic shadowing device.

I would have been negligent and a goddam lousy cop to boot, if I'd sat around this station all night when somebody got away with murder in my district.

I'd have phoned sooner but I've been busy ''.

Maybe I didn't see as much of Gladdy as I'd like, but how much worse it would have been if I'd had to board her out somewhere after Alice went -- send my daughter to an orphanage or a boarding-home.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

But I'd been a good girl and now God was blessing me with the gift of this magnificent man and the wondrous love we shared.

From the entire eastern half of the nation they'd be coming, members of the Young Christians' League, and I'd been chosen to represent our chapter.

I'd been seeing Johnnie almost a year now, but I still didn't want to leave him for five whole days.

I'd been used to penny bangers before.

If I wasn't from Tottenham I think I'd have been an Everton fan as they're my second team if you like.

He's been unwell a couple of times and his drum tech has stood in at a few festivals, but if he was permanently out, well, I don't know what I'd do, actually.

I'd been traveling quite a bit, living in hotels, eating bad food, drinking a lot — too much.