Example sentences of "never [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had served on a dozen worlds , rooting out aberrant psykers and heretics scrupulously and astringently — never succumbing to excess of zeal , though zealous none the less . |
| 2 | Brando was furious and said , ‘ I 'm never going to work with Mankiewicz again . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 5 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 6 | This is never going to work , Charles was thinking , so what is the point of worrying about it ? |
| 7 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 8 | This was never going to work ! |
| 9 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 10 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
| 11 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 12 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 13 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |