Example sentences of "never [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I hope Josh never goes to Eton , or any other privileged school where he 's kept away from reality , ’ Clare said stiffly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Never got to Chelsea barracks . |
| 5 | In Jamaica the people never referred to DQ ( as Don Quarrie is almost universally known ) as a black anything . |
| 6 | ( 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 . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It never occurred to Charles that Diana would find any of this odd or difficult to accept ; but her upbringing had been entirely different . |
| 10 | This last point never occurs to Honderich , who equates Conservatism with the new right . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hindley warned Heathcliff that he must never speak to Catherine again , or he would be sent away from Wuthering Heights , and it was decided that Catherine would be taught to behave like a young lady . |
| 13 | War allowed little time for reform ; the regenerating Constitution of Bayonne was never applied to Spain ; ambitious schemes for a new system of education , for a modern code based on the Code Napoléon came to nothing . |
| 14 | And , they claim , they would never refer to Buckingham Palace as ‘ the House ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This never happened to George Michael . |
| 17 | And Preston knew that William knew what the rest of them had known , or suspected , for some months : that he and his mother were never going to America and that the Master Sergeant was never coming back . |
| 18 | He would use her as his excuse for never going to America to work — a prospect which always frightened him . ’ |
| 19 | It had never occurred to Howarth that the six senior staff sitting awkwardly around his table in the candlelight , unmellowed even by the wine , would see the whole occasion as an elaborate gastronomic charade designed to demonstrate his social and intellectual superiority . |
| 20 | You know as well as I do a child was never born to Miss Lavant . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I trembled because I 'll never return to Rome , she thought , because when I leave tomorrow — and I will leave tomorrow — it will be forever . |
| 23 | ‘ In that case , my dear Roger , we learn French well and make friends with Monsieur Vauban because we can never return to England . ’ |
| 24 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 25 | Although while we are alive we can never return to Eden , we can benefit from the ever-flowing waters of Eden . |
| 26 | I will never return to Treasure Island , but in my worst dreams I still hear the sharp , high scream of Captain Flint the parrot : ‘ Pieces of eight ! |
| 27 | Though Acca lived until 740 , he was never restored to Hexham and in 734 Ecgberht , bishop of York , consecrated Frithuberht to the still vacant see . |
| 28 | A bishopric was not re-created at Ripon ( perhaps because a papal privilege was now recognized as protecting the monastery there ) , but Wilfrid was never restored to York during Aldfrith 's reign . |
| 29 | ‘ I never go to Mass , ’ he answered curtly . |
| 30 | ‘ I never go to Bristol , ’ he wrote to John Thelwall . |