Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] never [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather like doing a jigsaw puzzle where one might never get started if insisting first on finding the exact home for this one particular piece before trying with the rest . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not into yuppy-jazz , so I 'd never get asked to Jazz Café , though they get some good people there . ’ |
| 3 | This vision she had adopted , cultivated , and now it seemed her own , although she would never have conceived of it herself . |
| 4 | But she was inherently an unhappy woman , who had had an unhappy childhood , and possibly an unhappy marriage , although she would never have admitted it . |
| 5 | The Copacabana offers an excellent choice of bars , including the lobby bar , a terrace bar and a poolside bar , so you 'll never need to go thirsty ! |
| 6 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 7 | You are the person who has the initiative , so you should never need to arrange interviews , even one-off interviews , when you are pressed for time . |
| 8 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 9 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 10 | We wake up during the night with desperate thoughts of what horrible people we are and how if others knew what we were really like they would never want to see us again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Without speaking or smiling , he was holding me tightly round the waist , as if he would never let go . |
| 13 | I took it back afterwards and wear it partially in his memory , partially because I 'd never have spent the money on myself . |
| 14 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 15 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 16 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 17 | He 'd upset her thoroughly , and obviously she was still sulking , because she would never have got up before him otherwise . |
| 18 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 19 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 20 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 21 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 22 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 23 | They are usually wealthy ex-public school boys , who , since they will never need to work for a living , have little else to occupy them except the pursual of cheap thrills . |
| 24 | But even " I actually exist " , it might be argued , though trivially true as I speak it , is not entirely uninformative , for I might never have existed . |
| 25 | ‘ I learned to fly the Gloster before I left England , ’ he explained , ‘ though I could never have afforded to buy a plane . |
| 26 | Cadéac , though you would never know to look at it , is in actuality a mini-spa , an example of the purely local spas you can find in the Pyrenees , whose reputation extends only through one valley and which attract as a consequence almost exclusively local people . |
| 27 | Finally , move into the place it occupied , and try to breathe in and ‘ own ’ the qualities it represented — even though you might never choose to express them . |
| 28 | Yet , if we can answer it , we can understand the twentieth-century city-dweller as we can never hope to understand his medieval counterpart . |
| 29 | The SPRED programme is life-long as we can never stop growing in our relationship with God . |
| 30 | All had been rescued by their Lord when they could never have earned their salvation . |