That's why the British never got the tribes to fight for the King.

He meant to say more, but he never got the chance.

He never got that chance.

Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.

He never knew how he got there.

Though he struggled with philosophy all his life, he never got much beyond the pessimism of his twenties ; ;

Mrs. Shaefer never got around to joining the thousand or so people who paid Lee some $30,000 for his ozone machines.

He rather wished he had never got into the business, and still -- scarcely to be resisted, a nice little profit with not much work involved, easy money

The Continental League never got off the ground, but after two years it forced the existing majors to expand.

I never dreamed of the logistical difficulties involved until, at long last, both of my boys got squeezed into high school.

He told me he vowed right then that if he ever got to be a star, this never would be said of him ''.

You feel where he is and what he sees, and at night you feel when he is asleep or with the other woman, the one that never could love him the way you do, the one who got him because she didn't particularly give a damn whether she got him or didn't.

She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

I never got there.

She never got on his back.

How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know ".

Disraeli and Chelmsford had never got along particularly well, and Cairns, in Disraeli's view, was a far stronger minister.

However, in an era when Wayne Gretzky was scoring 200 points a season, Federko never got the attention many felt he deserved.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

Chernenko never got complete control over the Central Committee and Party apparatus ; while Andropov never succeeded in removing the majority of Brezhnev appointees in the Central Committee, he had succeeding in dividing the Central Committee along factional lines.

Due to his death in 1995, this work never got past the stage of early ( and premature ) conceptualizations, some of which were published in the journals Forum Kritische Psychologie and Argument.

In the Czech republic, Digimon was aired after the success of Pokémon by the TV Nova but it never got that popular.

It has been said that Ceithlenn got wounded in battle by an arrow and attempted to swim across the river but she never reached the other side.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

yet was never caught up in it -- never a slave to its academic dialectics.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

The players themselves tried to change the name to " Broncos " in, but it never really caught on.

In many ways, Germany never caught up during the rest of the Middle Ages.

Fedon's forces were defeated by the British in late 1796, but Fedon himself was never caught and his fate is unknown.

" personal-computer upgrade that seemed as if it would never materialize eventually caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), who started investigating Mattel Electronics for fraud and false advertising.

This display of friendship caught most Americans totally off-guard and they never recovered from the initial impression made by the Chinese.

He also changed " tongue " to " tung "— an innovation that never caught on.

( The term pantelism comes from two Greek roots: παν ( pan ), " everything ", and τελ-( tel -), referring to completion — another attempted pejorative label that never caught on ).

Vulcan would never be caught on the ground, or be in need of one of the few, conspicuous, 10, 000 foot runways that a B-47 or B-52 required for a fully fueled and loaded take-off.

Vane never returned to the Bahamas, but was eventually caught, tried and executed in Jamaica.

In 1940, Vandenberg was also an isolationist ( he would change his foreign-policy stance during World War II ) and his lackadaisical, lethargic campaign never caught the voters ' attention.

Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research Labs, DVI never caught on.

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

For example, a job reference that says a former employee " was never caught taking money from the cash box.

The concept never caught on.

Flashman surrendered to fear in front of witnesses only a few times, and was never caught out again.

In returning and reconciling, Procris brought two magical gifts, an inerrant javelin that never missed its mark, and a hunting hound, Laelaps that always caught its prey.

The story of the hunting of the Teumessian fox, which could never be caught, and which Zeus turned to stone along with Procris ' dog when the dog hunted it, and the death of Procris were told in one of the lost early Greek epics of the Cycle, most probably the Epigoni.

* The Teumessian fox-A fox that was destined never to be caught.

SDDS's much-touted eight track playback capability never quite caught on, as it required that a separate eight channel sound mix be created in addition to the six channel mix that is needed for SRD and DTS, an additional expense for the studios.

However, no heffalumps are ever caught in their trap, and indeed they never meet a heffalump in the course of the books.