Example sentences of "[vb mod] never [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't give you these names , because if I spell them out I should never need to waste money on a return ticket again . |
| 2 | Hells bells , I should never have quit abstinence . |
| 3 | I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again . |
| 4 | As a Republican , a Primitive Baptist preacher and a self-described ‘ dumb farm boy ’ , Mr Hunt should never have become governor . |
| 5 | What good was this love that she should never have given birth to ? |
| 6 | They should never have taken part in something so unnatural . |
| 7 | Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm . |
| 9 | What happened last night should never have taken place . ’ |
| 10 | He manufactured stories about the cannibalistic Caribs he never met : without the Admiral 's inventive mind , Shakespeare 's audience might never have encountered Caliban on Prospero 's island . |
| 11 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
| 12 | I talk about the but there we go again , where 's my little drawing again , that was one of the jobs we 'd never have done muck-spreading . |
| 13 | If it was n't for her we 'd never have set foot in Farmhouse Grim . |
| 14 | You 'd never have caught Spoonie Gee wearing Dunlop Green Flash . |
| 15 | I could never hope to keep pace with or understand it . |
| 16 | Deacon Palmer was a golf professional-cum-greenkeeper at Latrobe , near Pittsburgh , and he would never presume to set foot inside the clubhouse unless specifically invited by a member . |
| 17 | ‘ Without Chapman it is more than probable that his great natural gifts would never have achieved realization . ’ |
| 18 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 19 | Does he understand that planning permission was initially gained , with difficulty , for the building of motorways through areas of outstanding natural beauty and great environmental sensitivity , so many people would not be keen to see developers spending hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of pounds fighting in a long succession of inquiries so that they can build not just motorway service areas — possibly excluding the disabled and lorries — but hotels and other facilities that would never have received permission when the original planning consent was granted ? |
| 20 | You married below yourself , DeVore thought at once , knowing that Sung would never have made Field Supervisor without such a woman to push him from behind . |
| 21 | But intuition used to be the favoured type of knowledge , and St Thomas Aquinas , for example , would never have allowed intuition to constitute a specifically feminine attribute , because it would have meant admitting that women were nearer God . |
| 22 | Maureen , always self-effacing , would never have demanded time with him but Joe took matters into his own hands . |
| 23 | A couple of wretches on the run , skulking in the bushes on the lookout for prey , would never have dared break cover and try their luck with us . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Van Laue points out that rapid industrialisation would never have found majority support under a parliamentary regime , ‘ especially as Russian liberalism was largely agrarian in orientation ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 27 | It 's got a somewhat scrappily-engraved ‘ SRV ’ scratchplate , a ‘ signed ’ headstock , a left-handed trem , Fender 's own Texas Special pickups and , for some inexplicable reason , gold hardware throughout — not really to my taste , and Fender would never have put custom gold bits on a standard sunburst Strat in the old days . |
| 28 | Had not the American players been prepared to meet their own expenses , which included travel from often distant points of the continent , the game would never have taken place . |
| 29 | I 'll tell you this — if they had tried that on with the Liverpool team of the mid-1960s that included Ron Yeats , Ian St John , Gerry Byrne and myself the match would never have taken place . |
| 30 | Had Mountbatten lived , Diana may never have become Princess of Wales |