Example sentences of "[Wh pn] never [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it is interesting to note that the Japanese , who never succumbed to jade or to any notable degree to gold , are now in their days of increasing wealth choosing platinum for their diamond rings . |
| 2 | Two campaigners , an Englishman and a Frenchman , brushed away tears as they recalled 453 airmen who never returned from World War 2 sorties . |
| 3 | Nearly all these men were poor except Seneca whose attitude was that of a poor man , and Tagore who never thought of money . |
| 4 | But forget 10-digit typing and you 're soon skipping across the keys with the irritating agility of people who never sweated in front of a Pitman 's chart . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course , there were always the others who never went to school , who never declared themselves , but lived out their lives very privately , avoiding the school officer , the rent man , the army , and sometimes even prison . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We all sang it with all our hearts — even those of us who never went to church . |
| 12 | As a ‘ whitey ’ who never went to college , here are some of my opinions . |