Example sentences of "never [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an impish look about him , and the most beguiling manner , a combination which never failed to capture the hearts of all who came into contact with him . |
| 2 | He had never intended to turn the dog loose , only to scare Frankie into scuttling for safety like a terrified rabbit running ahead of the hounds . |
| 3 | In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts . |
| 4 | It is true , of course , that the category was never intended to deny the existence of other racisms , nor as an all-encompassing identity that would make ethnicity invisible or irrelevant . |
| 5 | … always a keen fan of the great Hollywood musicals in their MGM heyday , I particularly liked ‘ Slaughter on 10th Avenue ’ but never intended to buy the piece — now I have this interesting and enjoyable version … |
| 6 | ‘ Nevertheless , we must remember that your column was never intended to encapsulate the essence of our paper . |
| 7 | With a life-long interest in railways , and steam locomotives in particular , David Sutcliffe never intended to enter the market for videos of steam trains for enthusiasts . |
| 8 | oh yes , we never got to see the fields did we , cos the mist coming out ? |
| 9 | Footnote : The Greatest Living Irishman never got to pat the knee of the Greatest Living Human Being , but it was n't for lack of trying . |
| 10 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 11 | If nothing else , television viewers worldwide will now never need to ask the question ‘ are there sometimes strong winds and rough seas around Shetland in January ? ’ |
| 12 | It characterises the Germans that they never cease to ask the question , ‘ What is German ? ’ |
| 13 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |
| 14 | Mr Major must also be wondering why , if the recession is so bad , so many firms never bother to finish the job and so give themselves a chance of being paid . |
| 15 | I never want to leave the moor . ’ |
| 16 | Those who never want to see the DOS prompt again can opt to have the Shell loaded each time the computer is turned on . |
| 17 | We never tried to repeat the occasion . |
| 18 | He never tried to force the issue . |
| 19 | Kimberley White was never expected to survive the fall , but has made a spectacular recovery . |
| 20 | Yet Mary Ann Jones , author of the major American study A Second Chance for Families ( 1976 ) , ruefully remarked : ‘ The money which should have been saved from the reduction in institutional care was never transferred to support the financing of the new community services . ’ |
| 21 | And without that , I would have never gotten to live the adventure of the past twelve months . |
| 22 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 23 | They never seemed to use the drawers of the chest , so sometimes I confiscated them . |
| 24 | He liked her , she knew , although he never seemed to gather the courage to do anything about it . |
| 25 | But she never seemed to make the connection between these skills and the sickness notes , apparently in parents ' hands , which her pupils brought to school after prolonged absences of two or three weeks . |
| 26 | The baby nest I bought , a sort of quilted bag , was a waste of money because I never seemed to have the opportunity to use it . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 28 | Strange to say in all Communist countries , tower-blocks were always being put up but their development never seemed to diminish the housing shortage . |
| 29 | There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public . |
| 30 | 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 . |