Example sentences of "never have [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | Like , in England we 'd never have gone to a domestic dispute unless a crime had been committed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ I should never have gone to the hairdresser — ’ |
| 11 | Otherwise , he would never have referred to the only point upon which he and his advisors were at odds . |
| 12 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 13 | Modigliani would never have stayed with a nonentity . |
| 14 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 15 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a manager Cruyff demands something he would never have accepted as a player . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Morale always rose after a struggle ; I would never have to go over the same ground again . |
| 20 | You would never have guessed from the way the Parsons talked that they were childless . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Harry noticed in their faces , as they glanced at Cornelius , neither affection nor hostility , but something he would never have associated with the juvenile mind : awe . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 25 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 28 | The patiently plodding policeman : he should never have come off the beat . |
| 29 | It did n't help to admit that , but for her own stupidity , she would never have come near the place . |
| 30 | 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 . |