Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] could never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 2 | I argued that one could never trust the Russian leaders . |
| 3 | His stress on music 's ‘ social content ’ meant that he could never accept the tendency of positivist music sociology to treat genres , styles and forms as so much freely-existing data . |
| 4 | Not only was he unable to play with his father , put on loud music or bring friends home , he also became aware of an emotional gap which meant that he could never raise the topics of girls or male friends . |
| 5 | Kaszubian farmers felt that they could never raise enough money to compete with both the Poles and the Prussian Colonisation Commission for good quality land , and thus stood no real chance of ever turning their smallholdings into profitable concerns . |
| 6 | She now knew that he could never satisfy her , but was not prepared to dislike him just for that . |
| 7 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 8 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 9 | I knew that I could never have done it . |