Example sentences of "never went to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay never went to conferences , but as she accepted a lift with Lucy , he smiled with open pleasure . |
| 2 | A minority of them never went to B at all , but went straight to A and searched , like the others , at a visibly empty space . |
| 3 | In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited . |
| 4 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 5 | West Indians never went to self-defence classes but they can still beat us up . |
| 6 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 7 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 8 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 9 | Francis Bacon never went to art college , she pointed out . |
| 10 | I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’ |
| 11 | He never went to bed without making sure that every single appliance had been switched off . |
| 12 | As a ‘ whitey ’ who never went to college , here are some of my opinions . |
| 13 | My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy . |
| 14 | Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ . |
| 15 | Always told yer mother you never went to bed early enough . ’ |
| 16 | The boys never went to the pond again but did hear reports from other anglers that screams and shouts came from the ditch the other side of the old trackbed , also the eerie , noisy sound of a motorcycle being ridden flat out towards the railway line . |
| 17 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 18 | She never went to anyone else 's place without checking it first . |
| 19 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 20 | ‘ So you never went to the police . |
| 21 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 22 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 23 | Since Jasper and Bienvida never went to bed until Tina did but fell asleep wherever they happened to be , Jarvis hardly took this protest seriously . |
| 24 | Like most of the other women in the refuge , she never went on holiday after she was married , never went to the pictures and rarely went out . |
| 25 | We never went to the pictures and I never had any pictures on the wall . |
| 26 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 27 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |
| 28 | He never went to court because they said I was too young to give evidence . |
| 29 | I will never understand why I went to Cookham on my first sentence — I got a YP [ young prisoner 's sentence ] and do n't know why I never went to borstal — they still had them then . |
| 30 | But they never went to church , as far as she knew . |