Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 2 | To ask people whom you have previously never met to stand for nine hours answering questions is testament to their love of the hobby . |
| 3 | Though this may sound childish — and I was in fact childish in many ways , as young women are who have never had to shift for themselves but have always had someone to stand between them and the world — it did , in fact , help me to behave better to Nonni , who was not stupid at all in matters of feeling , and easy to hurt . |
| 4 | The most common culinary crises were narrowed down to : seduction cuisine — how to cook a romantic dinner to impress ; budget cuisine , coronary cuisine , comfort cuisine — for those not feeling on top of the world ; spoil yourself cuisine — for anyone on their own ; student cuisine ; survival cuisine — for those who 've never had to cook for themselves before ; sports cuisine — for those needing a carbohydrate boost before a sporting activity ; trim cuisine — for cooks wanting to entertain but still stick to a diet ; creep cuisine — to impress the boss ; and finally , oat cuisine — for vegetarians , of course ! |
| 5 | This concept is indeed abstract for those of us who have never had to fight for it or defend it . |
| 6 | She was spoiled , he was right , and she had never had to fight for anything in her life before . |
| 7 | Or no , she thought , no — for that last , golden day at the girls ' preparatory school , which had coincided with her fifty-first birthday , that had been a joy such as she had never dared to hope for , a once-in-a-lifetime joy . |
| 8 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 9 | Speaking by its swimming pool , playboy Count de Beaumont said Mellor never attempted to pay for anything during the 1990 holiday . |
| 10 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |
| 11 | And though I can not return until it pleases the gods to end the world , I have never ceased to long for it . |
| 12 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 13 | The runners ' tasks proved humdrum alright , and to start with , the poor bastards were never allowed to pause for breath . |
| 14 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 15 | We were never meant to fall for Satan but despite the poet 's efforts to make sure we do n't , we can not forget the magnificent figure encountered in the first two books . |