Example sentences of "[verb] never [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any other time I would probably telephone my agent and discuss this point for twenty minutes or so , for it is the kind of marginal detail which intrigues me and has never appeared to bore him . |
| 2 | Mrs Whitehouse herself has never sought to deny the intellectual and theological debt she owes to the Oxford Group and the MRA , but has been quick to silence those critics who have suggested the existence of more formal links between the NVALA and MRA . |
| 3 | Jewellery was and is Ratner 's game and he has never sought to diversify . |
| 4 | ‘ The direct cause of the Clapham Junction accident was undoubtedly the wiring errors made by Mr Hemingway , ’ the report says , adding : ‘ He has never sought to evade his reponsibility for the appalling consequences of his errors … not one word of excuse came from Mr Hemingway . ’ |
| 5 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 6 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 7 | The group has never tried to mislead anyone or appear contrary . |
| 8 | In my opinion , she is relishing the martyr role , and is n't in the least embarrassed that we all know she has never tried to kill herself or do many of the things Morton has her doing . |
| 9 | ‘ The Ministry of the Interior , which has overall responsibility for German museums , has never tried to tell us what to do ; the only restrictions on our activities have been financial ’ . |
| 10 | But Major has never managed to translate his popularity into votes , and even his personal lead over Kinnock has evaporated in the course of the campaign . |
| 11 | The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 has never managed to shake off its jinx-jet image . |
| 12 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 13 | Despite his ability for solving puzzles , he has never attempted to compile a crossword . |
| 14 | I replied : " The Republic has never ceased to exist … |
| 15 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |
| 16 | He has never ceased to use his career at the Met as a touchstone for such later projects as editor-in-chief of Connoisseur Magazine and several ‘ inside scoop ’ books on the art world ranging from Tutankhamen : The Untold Story to his early years as a curator of the Met 's medieval department and his purchase of the ‘ Bury St Edmunds Cross ’ ( King of the Confessors ) . |
| 17 | She bade me tell you that she loves you very dearly , and has never ceased to miss you . ’ |
| 18 | Over the years we have been thankful to hear the BBC World Service in Chungking , Kuala Lumpur , Los Angeles , Guyana , Nigeria , Alaska and many other places — and that clear , calm statement of the news spoken with suave detachment in impeccable English has never ceased to satisfy . |
| 19 | And because he has never seen a smile , he has never learned to give one . |
| 20 | She has never had to advertise any of her products because ‘ the shops and the product are the best advertisement ’ . |
| 21 | In practice it has never had to invoke this law . |
| 22 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 23 | ‘ The art world has never had to deal with that populist level , ’ he continues — we 've obviously broached one of his favourite topics . |
| 24 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 25 | His dress was austere enough , but rich and ample , and worn with an authority that comes only by birth , and his movements had the unmistakable quality of nobility , the absolute conviction of one who has never had to hesitate or use caution and humility in order to placate his betters . |
| 26 | She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to . |
| 27 | And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers . |
| 28 | Lord Young , a minister who has never had to face an election , has a meagre reservoir of affection and support among Tory backbenchers . |
| 29 | ‘ Horowitz has never failed to take out a target . ’ |
| 30 | I can not bear this obscene , grubbing curiosity about the affairs of others , it has never failed to repel me . |