Example sentences of "you [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you 'd never have told me . ’ |
| 2 | Do you think it could never happen to you ? |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know she would never let me speak to you on the phone ? |
| 4 | You go over the bridge and then you turn and then if you 're coming here , you go turn right again into umm d' you know I can never remember the name of the road , another road anyway you turn right . |
| 5 | Knowing what to do in a life-threatening emergency is like buying fire insurance — you hope you 'll never need it , and you probably never will . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the same when you dream about people doing things that you know they 'd never do in real life . ’ |
| 7 | Each frustrating chore piles on top of the one before , and you know you 'll never finish them , but you must . |
| 8 | Yes but heavens you know you 'll never climb with that and you 'll never climb the stairs |
| 9 | I mean they got a lot better living what we got and and and they was alright but the the you know you 'd never call them bloated capitalists because they were n't bloated really . |
| 10 | ‘ You know she 'd never do that . ’ |
| 11 | Why do you allow her to continue with all this humbug of taking over as your hostess when you know she will never do so ? ’ |
| 12 | I went well observed ! you know I would never have known |
| 13 | ‘ You know I 'd never have let it happen like that , ’ Aunt Sarah said presently . |
| 14 | You know I 'd never breathe a word to anybody . |
| 15 | You know I could never forget you ! ’ |
| 16 | You scramble on to it and it topples over ; you feel you will never learn the strange , simple secret . |
| 17 | Two others at least implied some aspects of value for money : ‘ You feel you 'd never finish paying ’ and ‘ You get poor value for money ’ . |
| 18 | This interpretation squares up with the survey 's finding that people were most likely to apply the critical comment ‘ you feel you 'd never finish paying ’ to the two types of credit which , though not in themselves necessitating long repayment schedules , tend to be associated with the larger loans which would impose long schedules on a ‘ rationed ’ consumer . |
| 19 | What do you mean you 'll never beat me ? |
| 20 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 21 | For example sometimes they overestimate certain works of art and you wonder you know during the sale you see it 's estimated forty to fifty thousand so you think they 'll never give it to you for less . |
| 22 | Fred , I know you think you will never understand such things as long as you live . |
| 23 | Carving a wooden rocking horse is a most satisfying project , though you may well encounter frustrations on the way and times when you think it will never come right , but it will , eventually . |
| 24 | But it 's a good piece , and — you think I 'll never write the book , do n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ Because if you did you 'd never have betrayed his trust and taken the jade . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I warn you , if you do I 'll never forgive you . ’ |
| 27 | If you do you 'll never recover the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 28 | Oh I was just saying about that turkey thing and you said we 'd never eat er |
| 29 | You said it would never go in the window . ’ |
| 30 | You said you 'd never let me go . |