Example sentences of "would never [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 But if they were always selling their stock at genuine bargain prices , they would never make any money .
2 your wife would never make any , an apple pie again in her life .
3 I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something …
4 Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ .
5 She would never wear rubber unless she became incontinent or was taking a course in scuba diving for women .
6 My father was a professional soldier and I was conscious of his excellence and knew I would never achieve that excellence .
7 Oh , until now I thought you would never love another man !
8 Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game .
9 In the silence later , in the darkness , she thought she would never forget that .
10 He would never forget that .
11 They would never forget that for a week they had imagined the act of murder had been committed .
12 He would never forget that time when a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush on a country road near Palermo .
13 Baxter 's military career was a resolute failure , it proved beyond reasonable doubt that the codes of discipline would never tame Slim Jim .
14 She would never admit that to him , though .
15 But he would never admit such a thing .
16 ‘ You would never return alive , and it would be my fault . ’
17 A woman who would never walk free in the sunshine , serving a life-sentence where today child murderers are punished by countable years or even months .
18 But he knew Father Devlin would never tolerate such talk from any of his parishioners .
19 All that she could identify as remaining of herself was the Jew ; she would never leave unpaid or transfer her spiritual account , if for no other reason than that payment safeguarded what little survived of her identity .
20 He himself would never marry another woman ; there could be no one else like her , no one in all the world .
21 Hawk would never grow old like this .
22 They lobbied councillors to ensure Akers Way would never witness another accident … they achieved many of the safety changes they 'd called for .
23 I 've , I 've I 've often thought I would never vote Tory but , I mean , I 've been better off in some ways in that I was able to buy my council house .
24 For the sunshine you have brought to a place where I thought the sun would never shine any more .
25 Whatever the years brought her , she would never regret these hours they had shared .
26 So you see , in schools like that we would never go uniformed and we would have to discontinue visiting those schools as we would be jeopardizing the children and teachers .
27 He dreamed of a society where there would be no capitalist bosses ; no unemployment ; with food ; housing and medical services for all ; where old women would not be thrown out of their lifelong homes to make way for richer tenants and children would never go hungry .
28 I vowed that my brothers would never go hungry . ’
29 That they made no complaint and knew no better would never justify such treatment .
30 I give you my sworn word as my father 's son that I would never betray any trust you placed in me . ’
  Next page