Example sentences of "never [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some girl who would never need to make such explanations , some girl who had been bred in a world which did not admit such dresses . |
| 2 | No doubt the Japanese can justify their prices , but as much as I like their sports cars , I would never consider buying any of their cars in the UK . |
| 3 | The judge said he would never expect to see another crime like it . |
| 4 | Even as the siren voices in the poem call us towards speech , we 're aware that our own one voice can never hope to carry all these as we would want it to . |
| 5 | While these careful measures succeeded in preserving Tokugawa rule for some two and a half centuries , they could never hope to prevent all social , economic and political change . |
| 6 | We can list the types of people who depended on peasant labour for their bread , but grew it not themselves ; but we can never hope to have any clear appreciation of the numerical strength of each class . |
| 7 | ‘ I could never have done that . |
| 8 | ‘ I should never have done that , ’ Willi said gloomily . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , the Gruagach would never have done such a thing if it had n't been suggested to them , ’ put in Feradach . |
| 10 | Women should never have done such heavy work . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd never have done this if your grandfather had been alive ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I could never have done this much before , but keeping busy has been a very important part in losing weight and keeping it off , ’ she says . |
| 13 | How very strange that I should never have seen that . |
| 14 | I would never have seen that |
| 15 | The artists lived as one extended bickering family and writers and painters who would never have seen each other before the war were thrown together . |
| 16 | It was n't dispassionate , but distressingly vulnerable ; even ( though Estabrook would never have breathed this aloud ) beautiful . |
| 17 | Certainly I should never have countenanced any such career for a daughter of mine . ’ |
| 18 | Even though individual Christians might never have suffered any harassment , their corporate existence and their way of thinking were determined by this condition . |
| 19 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 20 | Without the help of Daniel Marsh she would never have survived those dreadful days . |
| 21 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 22 | Svidrigailov would never have said that ; he would have gone on making jokes about America . |
| 23 | He would never have said that to anyone living . |
| 24 | Even though Gundovald can never have said some of the things which Gregory attributes to him , the bishop of Tours must have had some reason for putting the words into his mouth . |
| 25 | She 'd never have waited this long . |
| 26 | It should never have reached that stage where competitors got there under such circumstances . |
| 27 | Individual minds separately at work could never have reached such a silly conclusion . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We would never have reached this point if the Federation had accepted its responsibility and punished Philippe Gimbert ’ . |
| 29 | It should never have reached this stage . |
| 30 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |