Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 2 | Not the police — I 've never looked up to them . |
| 3 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
| 4 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 5 | Dr Francis Odling-Smee , a lecturer at Brunel University , Middlesex , said his father , when in his late 70s , told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life . |
| 6 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 7 | It would have been better if she had never come here to Spain . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house . |
| 9 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 10 | He 'd never got round to mending the hole . |
| 11 | You looked up the late opening times of the local pool but never got round to going . |
| 12 | It is regrettable that your esteemed publication never got round to featuring him in his lifetime ; perhaps you could put the record straight now . |
| 13 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 14 | Why had he never got round to building another sonic screwdriver ? |
| 15 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 17 | ‘ Supposed to have marked them weeks ago , but never got round to it . |
| 18 | again after the war , in this country , they erm , the lighting manufacturers never got round to it , there are too many er , there 's , there was too much call for er lighting in offices , shops , schools and that sort of thing and er , so a lot of the idea did come from abroad at first , the er Fin |
| 19 | I would think so , yes I think , I would think so because the bedroom suite , the bed upstairs er of that er suite is quite a good quality bed , you know , it 's only a spring mattress of course it 's not a , it 's not a box thing like we 'd have today , I mean , what we have in our other room , I 've always intended to change it , but never got round to it , but it er just had a spring mattress , but it was good quality of its time |
| 20 | Mrs Thompson said : ‘ This is something I have intended to do for some time but somehow never got round to . |
| 21 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 22 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 23 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 24 | Cleary wanted to include the imprimatur ‘ Official ’ in his title but somehow the Rugby Football Union , despite weighing in with pieces by the President and the Secretary , never got around to giving its official blessing . |
| 25 | The children emerged from the elaborate wrought-iron school gates , which were red with rust-preventer but had never got around to being painted . |
| 26 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 27 | He 'd never got around to closing the deadlock . |
| 28 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 29 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 30 | Perhaps that 's what you intended doing and never got around to doing |