Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they [vb mod] never [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these clogged defiles they could never wash off all the truck-belch and car-fart bubbling upwards in vapours of oil and acid and engine coolant . |
| 2 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
| 3 | The finding in Sir David Calcutt 's report on privacy and the press that the Press Complaints Commission 's lay members were dominated by the industry was baseless , Lord McGregor said , as their standing in the worlds in which their reputations had been made ensured they would never kowtow to proprietors or editors . |
| 4 | The housekeeper hovered in the background looking very distrustful and Jess began to wish they 'd never come . |
| 5 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 6 | Many younger people surveyed believe they would never have enough money to fulfil their dream . |
| 7 | Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn . |