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Example sentences of "never [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I never expected to start a game , ’ he said .
2	Grace never failed to send a letter on the first of every month , and somehow managed to sound cheerful despite being surrounded by death .
3	However , he never ceased to admire a poem like ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ :
4	We hope that you will never need to make a claim !
5	Pickles never has to lift a finger .
6	‘ Now , as Irish manager , he never has to discuss a contract , never has to sign a player .
7	‘ Now , as Irish manager , he never has to discuss a contract , never has to sign a player .
8	It has also been our our position of this County Council Chairman that we will never seek to impose a solution on St Albans , we felt that it 's our duty to highlight the problems we to give them our expertise er as part of the leading part of our Authorities Committee in this country .
9	Many retailers today rely simply on jacket design and advertising budgets and never bother to read a text at all .
10	I never want to see a bicycle again , even in a picture . ’
11	You never want to make a man the centre of your existence .
12	He never looks to have a rest and at the end of the day when we 've come in , he 's still out there practising . ’
13	A Steam Tank never needs to take a break test .
14	She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time .
15	Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor .
16	I 've never had to arrange a funeral before . ’
17	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 .
18	Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate .
19	I 'M A BIT NERVOUS , I 'VE NEVER HAD TO MAKE A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SPERM BANK BEFORE
20	In Japan both Sony and Matsushita have worked on similar equalisation , but never bothered to market a system .
21	Just never seems to be , we never seem to have a lot of time .
22	( I would point out at this stage that I would never begin to treat a patient with physical symptoms of this sort unless he or she had first consulted their doctor and was able to tell me that no physical cause for the problem could be found . )
23	Try selling nappies and dogfood to someone who lives alone and never intends to have a baby or a dog .
24	We 're going to get a bit of John back but I 'm never going to have a husband again .
25	‘ I am never going to write a song as good as Blowing In The Wind , ’ he says .
26	Like the other members of the Lanistes-dwelling ( that is what ‘ lanisticola ’ means ) group they are never going to win a beauty contest if their rock-dwelling cousins have entered , but their charm lies in their interesting divergence from the Mbuna norm , and in their much-less boisterous nature .
27	She added : ‘ Frankly , I think she is an utter disaster from start to finish and was never going to make a member of the Royal Family .
28	‘ I am never going to make a movie as good as A Streetcar Named Desire .
29	Pietro Miletti picked up the paper again and began to read in a calm , confident voice , a voice that was accustomed to being obeyed , that never needed to make a fuss .
30	Were it not for the extreme aggression that subsequently erupts when the males come too close to one another , superfecundation would undoubtedly be even more common than it is , but some males will never dare to risk a mating with a dominant tom-cat watching from nearby .