Example sentences of "never [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 2 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 3 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 4 | Averment that everything necessary happened to entitle the plaintiff to have the said testator pay to him eighteen of the yearly sums of £150 and that the time therefore elapsed after he had married Ellen Nicholl and during the testator 's lifetime and that plaintiffs annual income from his profession as a Chancery barrister never amounted to 600 guineas ; that the testator paid 12 of the 18 annual sums and part of the thirteenth but that the residue of that and the 5 subsequent instalments were due and unpaid . |
| 5 | It never amounted to much , a few petty annoyances . |
| 6 | ‘ You never amounted to much anyway . |
| 7 | Professor Dyos estimated that newcomers never amounted to more than between 12 to 16 per cent of the total population of south London districts in any single decade , but that this rate of immigration was sufficient to create communities in which less than half the inhabitants had been born within that part of Greater London which lay south of the Thames . |
| 8 | The officers never recommended to us that we should have a lock stock and barrel merger . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | I certainly never agreed to be treated like an under-housemaid of the eighteen nineties . ’ |
| 12 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 14 | For someone who never expected to be officially recognised for her work , the BEM is ample reward . |
| 15 | The book ends with a flurry of ‘ I really never expected to be treated in this way by you ’ accusations and counter-accusations . |
| 16 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 17 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 18 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 19 | I am so happy , as I never expected to be , knowing that he wishes to marry me , has not rejected me as soiled goods as so many would have done . |
| 20 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 21 | Prayer rugs , for example , are never referred to as carpets , and anything employing a hunting design would ten to be called a hunting carpet rather than a hunting rug . |
| 22 | The dramatic incident at Hause Point was never referred to . |
| 23 | Also avoided are comparisons in sound produced between modern piano wire ( which is never mentioned ) , the various carbon steels available for early instruments ( which are listed ) and the carbon-free phosphorus steel originally used , at least on the earlier instruments ( which are never referred to , but the relevant book by Goodway and Odell is in the bibliography ) . |
| 24 | But modern boxing has a more sensitive audience , one that never goes to the arena but watches at home on the television . |
| 25 | my Dad does the shopping on his way home from work on a Friday , so my Mum never goes to the supermarket , |
| 26 | Apart from domino afternoons , she never sees friends , never goes out , never goes to meetings . |
| 27 | I hope Josh never goes to Eton , or any other privileged school where he 's kept away from reality , ’ Clare said stiffly . |
| 28 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 29 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 30 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |