Example sentences of "[verb] never learned [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because he has never seen a smile , he has never learned to give one . |
| 2 | Cedric usually takes me to the station — ’ she giggled slightly , ‘ I 've never learned to drive , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never learned to play the piano , ’ he said in the early Sixties . |
| 4 | Maurice had never learned to swim , but this did not disturb him . |
| 5 | She had never learned to drive and disliked the train because , she said , you were too low in a train to see properly . |
| 6 | Spurs of deep blue light crowned his head , weaving in some restless pattern like speech that she had never learned to comprehend . |
| 7 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 8 | Isabel Lavender had always been less good than most people at losing face , since she had never learned how to compensate for it , she had never learned to wallow , to conceal partial humiliation in an expression of total defeat . |
| 9 | ‘ You have never learned to accept . |