Example sentences of "[modal v] never [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Practitioners should never act like a puppet ; they must never focus their attention solely on the hands while neglecting the movements of the waist and legs , which are the main weight-bearing parts .
2 Poor old Doctor , he said you 'll never wear your heart out .
3 ‘ You 'll never take my appendix out , I can tell you that . ’
4 ‘ I 'll never see my brother again , ’ she moaned , hating herself for sounding so foolish when her grief was so vast .
5 You 'll never get your money back . ’
6 ‘ I 'll never turn my nose up at you , and never at Mrs Aggie .
7 He 'd never see his homeland again ; never see parents , sister … ’
8 So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store .
9 I would never eat their meat out there anyway cos I think pony in it
10 Jezrael fought to fold the anger away , tuck it down so deep inside her that she would never feel its corrosion again — she hoped .
11 In those days Madame would never stop him from drinking , would never put her hand out over his glass like a good or responsible woman is supposed to in such scenes ; Madame would give him the whole bottle , and say , quietly and sincerely , I hope you know what you 're doing .
12 Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again .
13 If I lost her , we would never find our way home .
14 Many cooperated with an uneasy feeling that the clients would never see their money again .
15 Although she quickly did all the right things : alerting the police , the coastguard and Dr Forman , Harriet Tremayne knew that she would never see her daughter again .
16 The wise hermit of the dale , the Seer of Carbaby , warned the giant that if he carried out his threat he would never see his castle again alive or dead .
17 He did say before he went that I would never see my son again .
18 I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year .
19 However , night workers will never perform their job as efficiently as they would during the day , for the master clock controls far more than just our cycle of sleeping and waking .
20 At the point where Theseus finally accepts that he will never see his son again ( ‘ Je ne te verrai plus ! o juste châtiment ! ’ ,
21 Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again .
22 They 're offering obscure American stocks ; you may never see your money again . "
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