Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would never " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I would never buy it , but I would try not to buy anything . |
| 2 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 3 | They were very quiet and sad at first , because I would be leaving them , but I promised I would never forget them and would often return to visit them . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know she would never let me speak to you on the phone ? |
| 5 | Devlin Parnham was in his seventies but apart from the sparsity of his frame and a slight tendency to stoop you would never have known it . |
| 6 | It was n't really very bad but it was a dull ache that made her realise she would never get to sleep . |
| 7 | To find its value , attention is focused on the proportions who say they would break the law , ignoring proportions who say they would never break it ( figure 13.6 ) . |
| 8 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 9 | Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly . |
| 10 | Maria Luisa made me swear I would never tell anyone and I did because she needed to trust someone . |
| 11 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 12 | She looked after the car , knowing she had been so absorbed she would never have noticed if the Josephs had been in it . |
| 13 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |
| 15 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
| 16 | I presume he believed they would never hear of the second marriage . |
| 17 | The real murderers now hid in the shadows , mocking both him and Cranston , believing they would never search out the truth . |
| 18 | The doctors believed he would never see again . |
| 19 | His mother says he would never own to his second name , which was that of a friend of Herbert 's living in London . |
| 20 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 21 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 22 | From the outset , Richard had said he would never encourage Joan to leave her husband ; he knew the pain which a broken marriage could cause . |
| 23 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 24 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 25 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 26 | I 've , I 've I 've often thought I would never vote Tory but , I mean , I 've been better off in some ways in that I was able to buy my council house . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 28 | I did it , though I vowed I would never work that fast again . ’ |
| 29 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 30 | I vowed I would never use anything else , for in that time this old faithful has found thousands of coins and artefacts for me — some very rare . |