Example sentences of "never [verb] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Mountbatten lived , Diana may never have become Princess of Wales |
| 2 | If Siward had been strong , Harold of Wessex would never have sent Malcolm to him . |
| 3 | I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again . |
| 4 | What good was this love that she should never have given birth to ? |
| 5 | Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit . |
| 6 | They should never have taken part in something so unnatural . |
| 7 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 8 | He was in good fettle , otherwise he would never have traded words with me . |
| 9 | But together with the other matters , it raises the possibility that she may never have known Daniel at all . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes clothes would arrive with the sleeves backwards or the pocket on the wrong side ; someone with formal training would never have allowed garments with such a poor finish , ’ Liza maintains . |
| 11 | Maureen , always self-effacing , would never have demanded time with him but Joe took matters into his own hands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it was n't for her we 'd never have set foot in Farmhouse Grim . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 17 | Yet the horse , never having discovered food in such a place before , will stop short in its tracks and say , quite clearly , ‘ I want it ! ’ |
| 18 | Should she intervene , should she break them up , or should she ignore her uninvited guest , pretend , professionally , never to have set eyes on her before ? |