Example sentences of "never [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed the legendary ‘ Hawk ’ had led Dave Forbes on the never revealed mission to Iran in 1980 to rescue a British hostage .
2 He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car .
3 The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms .
4 He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face .
5 ‘ But we have never made door to door collections , so we know this man has nothing to do with us , ’ she said .
6 well that 's what I wan na know , that 's right , that 's all I wan na know , never give way to traffic on the , on the right , you could pull out on it , if indicating
7 Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ .
8 My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living .
9 Relationships were just too difficult , the sexes would never see eye to eye , it was all too much bother .
10 I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me .
11 As Bailey said , the two of them never saw eye to eye .
12 For some reason , we never saw eye to eye .
13 Faced with the need to chastise a dancer , she never gave way to anger nor showed her annoyance but her eyes would fill with tears and she would say , ‘ I never thought a Tiller would let us down like this . ’
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