Example sentences of "never [vb past] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Never got to Chelsea barracks . |
| 3 | In Jamaica the people never referred to DQ ( as Don Quarrie is almost universally known ) as a black anything . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It never occurred to Charles that Diana would find any of this odd or difficult to accept ; but her upbringing had been entirely different . |
| 8 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 9 | This never happened to George Michael . |
| 10 | At the ceremony Sharon vowed to double the Jewish population of the Heights ( currently some 12,400 ) to ensure that the territory never returned to Syria . |
| 11 | Old Mrs Brady never took to Moran but she grew very fond of the children . |
| 12 | This explanation , though , considering that the story originally never related to Stamford , is even more bizarre than Thomas Browne 's . |
| 13 | She never went to London after Isabel came here . |
| 14 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 16 | Lorraine never went to Kim 's second wedding . |
| 17 | D'Arcy himself never went to Persia , but on 28 May 1901 his representative obtained a concession valid for sixty years . |
| 18 | Alexander never went to Jerusalem . |
| 19 | All on Stenness , they never went to Harray for there were plenty of fish in Stenness you see . |
| 20 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 21 | cos I never entertain none of them , I 'd just used to sit there and laugh , I never spoke to David from the day everybody left . |
| 22 | The young woman came regularly to take care of the sick cow , but never spoke to Gabriel . |
| 23 | Jayne , it seems , never spoke to Isabelle and the only time she smiled at her was when she learnt that Chris and Isabelle were splitting up . |
| 24 | It never occured to Mr Aust that the callers might be dishonest . |
| 25 | It never occured to Mr Aust that the callers might be dishonest . |