Example sentences of "never [verb] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Until now I 'd just … never got around to the process of losing it … ’ |
| 2 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 3 | They never caught on to the idea of the ground going upwards-and-downwards . |
| 4 | Never act unfairly to a prisoner by coaxing him by word or conduct to divulge anything . |
| 5 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 6 | ‘ But not for long and I never came over to the Yamacraw . |
| 7 | ‘ It looks as if she never came back to the phone . |
| 8 | Never give in to a bully . ’ |
| 9 | Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era : |
| 10 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |
| 11 | He 'd never spoken directly to the man in all his seventeen years . |
| 12 | Meredith was amazed that he could n't see that the old key would never stand up to the pressure he was putting on it . |
| 13 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 14 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 15 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 16 | ‘ We feel a real sense of belonging , and even if the business collapsed tomorrow we 'd never go back to the south east . ’ |
| 17 | Well she always used to say , why you do n't say anything , but she always used to say to , she 'd never come down to the house , I mean I do n't think she 's been to my house , house five times |
| 18 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 19 | Among invertebrates , the most conspicuous absentees are the insects , which evolved as land animals , and have never returned convincingly to the sea . |
| 20 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |