Example sentences of "who never [vb past] to [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | We all sang it with all our hearts — even those of us who never went to church . |
9 | As a ‘ whitey ’ who never went to college , here are some of my opinions . |