Example sentences of "never have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Without Chapman it is more than probable that his great natural gifts would never have achieved realization . ’
4 Had Mountbatten lived , Diana may never have become Princess of Wales
5 As a Republican , a Primitive Baptist preacher and a self-described ‘ dumb farm boy ’ , Mr Hunt should never have become governor .
6 I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again .
7 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 .
8 Hells bells , I should never have quit abstinence .
9 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 ?
10 What good was this love that she should never have given birth to ?
11 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 .
12 They should never have taken part in something so unnatural .
13 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 .
14 The modern evidence , of the kind I have presented here , suggests that such encounters need never have taken place .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm .
20 What happened last night should never have taken place . ’
21 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 ’ .
22 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 .
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 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 .
25 You 'd never have caught Spoonie Gee wearing Dunlop Green Flash .
26 Maureen , always self-effacing , would never have demanded time with him but Joe took matters into his own hands .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Mrs Gaskell , when living in Manchester , need never have set foot ( had she so chosen ) in the slums of Miles Platting and Ancoats with their crowded courts .
30 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 .
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