Example sentences of "she [vb mod] never [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Jake 'd have wanted me to see her right ; but she 'll never take a penny piece off me … ’
2 Well she 'll never get a size four on , my boots .
3 ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’
4 She would never marry a man such as Sir Richard Fiennes .
5 ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it .
6 The daughter , Marjory was small , dark-haired and so bow-legged that to quote my father , ‘ she would never stop a pig in a passage ’ .
7 She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own .
8 Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child .
9 Perhaps she would never have a child .
10 She would never have a confrontation but she would get things done her way .
11 She had always promised herself she would never have an affair with a married man .
12 I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority .
13 One is married already , one has declared that she will never take a husband , and the third has two suitors after her as it is .
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