Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this . |
| 2 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 3 | Of course you could never forget about it . |
| 4 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 5 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course it will never happen , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 7 | ‘ If it were my sole decision , then of course , of course I would never press it . ’ |
| 8 | Audiences yearn to groan under the yoke of suffering they may never have experienced . |
| 9 | There I had the idea of the kind of sound you could never have in the concert-hall , a sound that exists only in the imagination and in the new kind of acoustic reality we were able to create through the recording itself . |
| 10 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
| 11 | being shouted at running nine miles with three tonne of stuff you 'll never use on your back |
| 12 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 13 | erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the kind of bond you can never break , even if you do n't see much of each other . ’ |
| 15 | Of the programmes I 've watched-not all of them , let me confess-only the third , on the dhow in the Gulf seemed to enter into a wholly unknown , and dangerous environment , a way of life I could never have imagined . |
| 16 | ‘ He took her all right — took her to the kind of life she could never have dreamed of . |
| 17 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |
| 18 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Laws , said in the High Court if she had known there was a risk of pregnancy she would never have had sex with her lover . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for Desmond she would never have got through them . |
| 21 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 22 | With luck they 'll never know what happened to him . |
| 23 | ‘ Your mother 's been very worried about you , ’ Leith remarked , having good occasion to remember that , were it not for Mrs Hepwood being nearly demented with anxiety she would never have had his vile and lofty cousin insisting she answered his summons at her door at close to four in the morning . |
| 24 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 25 | If you 'll be Confirmed in Faith I 'll never ask you to come to the church again . |
| 26 | And er if you were interested in football you 'd never know till Tuesday morning what had happened on that Saturday , the previous Saturday . |
| 27 | If permitted to return in safety I shall never regret the steps I am about to take . |
| 28 | In truth she would never have known . |
| 29 | Children have voracious appetites for authenticity , but in drama we should never intimidate them with factual information . |
| 30 | In theory it should never need attention again . |