Example sentences of "never [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 2 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 3 | They depressed even him , though they comforted Dorothea Gilberd , who saw their value , and knew that Tom Tedder would never disappear to Chelsea , Arles , Florence or the South Seas . |
| 4 | I hope Josh never goes to Eton , or any other privileged school where he 's kept away from reality , ’ Clare said stiffly . |
| 5 | Apart from domino afternoons , she never sees friends , never goes out , never goes to meetings . |
| 6 | The United Nations was never intended to police the world . |
| 7 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 8 | She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions . |
| 9 | Never got to Chelsea barracks . |
| 10 | You 'll never got to Heaven . |
| 11 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of principle one should never yield to terrorism . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , as far as is known , no written parchments have survived from the Minoan civilization , and it may be that the finest Minoan thoughts were never committed to writing . |
| 14 | In Jamaica the people never referred to DQ ( as Don Quarrie is almost universally known ) as a black anything . |
| 15 | JTR never referred to world events . |
| 16 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 17 | From a lonely boyhood to being left for dead in some alley , he had never looked to others for strength . |
| 18 | He never pretended to feelings he did n't have and if he thought she 'd made a fool of herself he 'd say so , but never to do her down , never to boost himself at her expense . |
| 19 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |
| 20 | It never occurred to Robbins that there was any need to describe the internal culture of higher education ; it was taken for granted that everyone knew what it was , or at least what it should be . |
| 21 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 22 | It never occurred to Charles that Diana would find any of this odd or difficult to accept ; but her upbringing had been entirely different . |
| 23 | Rejecting the UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Libya unless it hands over two men accused of carrying out the 1989 Lockerbie airliner bombing , Gaddafi said he would never surrender to demands by the United States and Britain . |
| 24 | The legislature has never had occasion to speak on this matter , and the issue has never come to court . |
| 25 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 26 | But much of the casual work done by women was probably never reported to census enumerators ; the number of wives recorded as lodging-house keepers or washerwomen , for example , was probably very inaccurate , largely because of the difficulty census enumerators experienced in classifying women 's domestic labour . |
| 27 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 28 | mm , you never listen to people and then you think you can just pick it up by deduction |
| 29 | This last point never occurs to Honderich , who equates Conservatism with the new right . |
| 30 | Gatsby 's love is so much stronger that Clegg 's as he will do this for Daisy , whereas it never occurs to Clegg to make that sort of sacrifice for Miranda . |