Example sentences of "never [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It never amounted to much , a few petty annoyances . |
| 4 | ‘ You never amounted to much anyway . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The officers never recommended to us that we should have a lock stock and barrel merger . |
| 7 | I certainly never agreed to be treated like an under-housemaid of the eighteen nineties . ’ |
| 8 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 9 | For someone who never expected to be officially recognised for her work , the BEM is ample reward . |
| 10 | The book ends with a flurry of ‘ I really never expected to be treated in this way by you ’ accusations and counter-accusations . |
| 11 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 12 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 16 | But , says STEVE BALE , Neath never asked to be placed on a pedestal . |
| 17 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 18 | I never asked to be a witch 's daughter . ’ |
| 19 | It was my Maker who offended against me , acting so unfatherly against one who never asked to be born in any unnatural way . |
| 20 | Although these years witnessed a very low tide of economic activity including the horrors of widespread famine and even peasant revolts in some areas like Tambov , problems concerning religious belief and taxation never led to large-scale uprisings in the Smolensk guberniia ( nor indeed anywhere else in Russia ) . |
| 21 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 22 | Tarkovsky : although Italian-funded , his films never pandered to the vacuous pan-European market |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mr Rooker said money from the fund ‘ simply never got to the people who needed it because it was n't publicised enough and because the regimental administrators were inefficient . |
| 25 | Everyone knows Mr Baker has edited the Faber Book of English History in Verse , and included some lines from Henry V , but even there he never got to that particular bit . |
| 26 | Never got to Chelsea barracks . |
| 27 | She never got to the expensive school . |
| 28 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 29 | They never got to sorting those out . |
| 30 | You 'll never got to Heaven . |