Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] never [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 2 | But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were . |
| 3 | But obviously it was an idea that had never occurred to him before , and his mind would take a little while to accommodate it . |
| 4 | One of those old elusive memories from the back of my brain returned to baffle me — a memory of something that had never happened to me . |
| 5 | Simonds , who was to give three to five lectures a week , admitted that , coming from practice in Twickenham , he was not an experienced teacher , and had never lectured to such an audience as attended his inaugural discourse . |
| 6 | He had seen the priest in the refectory before , but had never spoken to him . |
| 7 | Close by squatted a very young Tominah whom we had often seen behind the older priests but had never talked to . |