Example sentences of "would never do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of those who talk about killing him would never do it themselves . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 3 | Two or three times , during the past few days , she had caught herself blaming Alida Thorne bitterly , but had pulled herself up short , for she had no experience of life alone with an elderly and ailing dependent , she could not say , I would never do such a thing , because how did anyone know ? |
| 4 | I would never do it in the theatre ; I have seen it and — well , the people are just there to hear the singers . |
| 5 | He maintained his refusal to comment on the polls , and remained adamant he would never do deals on proportional representation . |
| 6 | I told Winnie I would never do something like that and went inside the house . |
| 7 | When Brian Way speaks of direct experience ‘ transcending knowledge ’ , he is denigrating knowledge in a way Dorothy Heathcote would never do . |
| 8 | It might interfere with your work if you worry , and that would never do . ’ |
| 9 | His next film was very laid back and one , he admitted , which was the clearest-cut job of acting for the money he had ever done … and he vowed he would never do that again . |
| 10 | Maybe she felt that if she could n't do it now , she would never do it ; maybe that was why her face hardened as she watched them , still apart , and imagined them , together . |
| 11 | But if , by manipulation , some of the yellow cytoplasm is squeezed into adjacent cells they too will develop muscle , something they would never do normally . |
| 12 | Donald would never do it with a patient . |
| 13 | Children at play do things that inhibited adults would never do . |
| 14 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd make sure they would never do this again , ’ said the still fit 58-year-old . |
| 16 | I would never do that . |
| 17 | I can remember walking away , swearing that I would never do this again , feeling physically sick . |
| 18 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 19 | ‘ I would never do that , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 20 | But this would never do for the gilded 1960s radicals . |
| 21 | The two brothers had not always got along very well but in spite of their differences , Spencer would never do anything to harm the firm or his brother . |
| 22 | George would never do anything like that . |
| 23 | George would never do anything like that again . |
| 24 | The Ndorrobo were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game , something a Masai would never do . |
| 25 | ‘ I would never do that again . |
| 26 | Stephen would never do anything mean or underhand . |
| 27 | You hear about these girls going with their parents to the family planning clinic , my mum would never do that . |
| 28 | We 'd often talked about it and I 'd always said , No , I would never do anything like that until I got married . |
| 29 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 30 | Whereas Finn would never do anything like that . |