Example sentences of "never have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train .
2 They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’
3 Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise .
4 ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’
5 He knew that he would never have survived as a teacher in the state sector : he was both not good enough and not bad enough .
6 He would never have gone into the woods with her .
7 Once the judge had concluded that the psychologist 's evidence was so compelling that he felt constrained to accept it , if he had applied his mind to a proper construction of section 78 the evidence would never have gone to the jury .
8 ‘ I should never have gone to the hairdresser — ’
9 For example … / in the old days a man of my standing would never have gone to the shops ; everything would be sent to his house : grain , chillies , cotton , cloth .
10 Modigliani would never have stayed with a nonentity .
11 If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind .
12 As a manager Cruyff demands something he would never have accepted as a player .
13 ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone .
14 You would never have guessed from the way the Parsons talked that they were childless .
15 It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines .
16 Humankind and the apes shared the vertebrate form because both were created by God , but Owen could stress the anatomical differences in order to make it clear that the one could never have evolved from the other .
17 She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book .
18 The patiently plodding policeman : he should never have come off the beat .
19 It did n't help to admit that , but for her own stupidity , she would never have come near the place .
20 So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here .
21 The public and Parliament might never have known about the payment , even though Premier John Major has pledged a new age of open Government , Labour MPs angrily pointed out .
22 One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers .
23 Monod , by his collaboration with Coque , at least left a name in the automotive industry , but who today ever gives a thought to Le Chassis , without whose basic contribution to the theory of tetracyclic separation that industry would never have got off the ground ?
24 The government in London was kept well informed of what was happening and the rebellion might never have got off the ground but for the effects of the Act of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland , which came into effect on 1 May 1707 .
25 Now , if he 'd written in a more highfalutin way , or he 'd talked about Liz and myself , or a variety of other things , in a very pontificating way , it may never have got in the newspaper because they would have said , ‘ What is the relevance ?
26 He agreed , on a strange condition : that he would never have to work with the eagles .
27 Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy .
28 If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way .
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