Example sentences of "they could never [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision .
2 It might have been better to handle the sale more discreetly through dealer Angela Nevill , but either way they could never fetch the prices Bond paid for them ’ .
3 The British realized during the war years that they could never reap the benefits of the expected postwar boom in international civil aviation without a coherent national programme that would enable Britain to compete on equal terms with the United States .
4 They could never know the fire-opal of her meanings .
5 Because they were never insulated , they could never keep the heat in nor the cold out and our bedrooms were sometimes colder than outside .
6 Butenko called in particular for the establishment of a socialist civil society , based upon a wide dispersal of ownership ( so long as workers depended upon their employers , even under public ownership , they could never become the agents of their own destiny ) .
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