Example sentences of "[pers pn] would never have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |
| 2 | I would never have seen that |
| 3 | And I often think to myself , when I 'm paying for something , think to myself , oh I would never have paid that years ago . |
| 4 | Without the help of Daniel Marsh she would never have survived those dreadful days . |
| 5 | It was something that she would never have thought possible and now that it had actually happened , now that she knew she was n't dreaming , she wanted it to last . |
| 6 | If she had not learned to clean so thoroughly she would never have taken each and every picture off the wall to dust both the picture and the wall behind . |
| 7 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 8 | ‘ We would never have reached this point if the Federation had accepted its responsibility and punished Philippe Gimbert ’ . |
| 9 | I would just like to say a few , a few things to er especially to Rupert and Mr David er without their help and cooperation we would never have had such er , er nev would never have started this project erm we thank you very much . |
| 10 | We would never have produced such alternatives because experience has shown that enormous pressure would be placed on the auditor to move something in or out of normalised earnings . ’ |
| 11 | Many activists in Paisley 's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party . |
| 12 | He would never have said that to anyone living . |
| 13 | If Simon had n't had other things on his mind — if he had n't been distracted by you — ’ the word burst from him with a violence which made her recoil ‘ — he would never have made that fatal error . ’ |
| 14 | He would never have supported cooperative politics had he thought that it would develop a Cooperative Party , pure and simple , antagonistic to the main democratic Labour movement . |
| 15 | Then the figure spoke again , and Jim 's heart leapt like he would never have thought possible a few nights earlier , as he recognised the nasal drawl of the red-neck trucker called Jube . |
| 16 | He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana . |
| 17 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |