Example sentences of "[Wh pn] never [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it is interesting to note that the Japanese , who never succumbed to jade or to any notable degree to gold , are now in their days of increasing wealth choosing platinum for their diamond rings . |
| 2 | There must be a steady proportion of grass-rooters who never listened to a single word of the conference proper , spending the mornings awash with coffee , lunchtime with lager , and tea with Typhoo . |
| 3 | It was my Maker who offended against me , acting so unfatherly against one who never asked to be born in any unnatural way . |
| 4 | ‘ On this occasion , the Argentine government and its people , who never consented to that act of force , reiterate their permanent will to recover by diplomatic means the exercise of its territorial sovereignty over the Malvinas , Southern Georgias and Sandwich islands and the surrounding waters , ’ the communique said . |
| 5 | For someone who never expected to be officially recognised for her work , the BEM is ample reward . |
| 6 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 7 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 8 | As a ‘ whitey ’ who never went to college , here are some of my opinions . |
| 9 | Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ . |
| 10 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |
| 11 | And er a very devout Christian who never went to er chapel like in her later years but she was , she was a good Christian lady . |
| 12 | We all sang it with all our hearts — even those of us who never went to church . |
| 13 | Barely twelve people , and those good pious souls who never went to the cinema anyway . |
| 14 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
| 15 | Of course , there were always the others who never went to school , who never declared themselves , but lived out their lives very privately , avoiding the school officer , the rent man , the army , and sometimes even prison . |
| 16 | But Jesus , who never responded to real unbelief , showed by answering his prayer and healing his son that he recognized it as doubt . |
| 17 | I felt I was arguing on behalf of myself and the other two , who never rose to the bait . |
| 18 | Williams was one of those players who never learned to properly channel his aggression , never believed anybody knew better than him and always asked ‘ Why me ? ’ of critics rather than himself . |