Example sentences of "never [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
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	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 .
4	You 'll never got to Heaven .
5	There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green .
6	‘ As a matter of principle one should never yield to terrorism .
7	Unfortunately , as far as is known , no written parchments have survived from the Minoan civilization , and it may be that the finest Minoan thoughts were never committed to writing .
8	JTR never referred to world events .
9	Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion .
10	The legislature has never had occasion to speak on this matter , and the issue has never come to court .
11	But much of the casual work done by women was probably never reported to census enumerators ; the number of wives recorded as lodging-house keepers or washerwomen , for example , was probably very inaccurate , largely because of the difficulty census enumerators experienced in classifying women 's domestic labour .
12	His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital .
13	whose nobility of soul never stoops to treachery even if his life or livelihood is at stake ,
14	Never seemed to cotton on to the fact that I do n't like morning mists .
15	Lennie spoilt everything for George but George never seemed to mind terribly much .
16	But the case never came to court .
17	In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father .
18	Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court .
19	This never came to trial and in the autumn he sold the land to IBM for a price similar to that received by other farmers , with a sum for damages much smaller than that he had sought in his suit .
20	He never came to trial for the robbery at the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society in Quedgeley , Gloucester .
21	It never came to trial , since Charley died soon after Rose went home .
22	While some , indeed most , planned towns established themselves successfully , others proved completely abortive , never came to life at all despite all the activity of the planners , including the king himself .
23	A 1976 Granada television comedy project , ‘ All The Queen 's Men ’ , featured an all-gay Army unit but never came to fruition .
24	However , the promised Unix showcase at Comdex/Spring last week never came to fruition .
25	Sadly the planned improved Kick Off 2 cart never came to fruition .
26	This grant , however , never came to fruition , Berkhamsted , after Geoffrey 's death , remaining in the hands of the king .
27	They had made love before of course , a gentle , tentative , lovemaking that never came to fruition .
28	That never came , that never came to fruition .
29	He suspected a young lawyer , a man whose name never came to light , even in the subsequent trial .
30	He had served on a dozen worlds , rooting out aberrant psykers and heretics scrupulously and astringently — never succumbing to excess of zeal , though zealous none the less .

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