Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb mod] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , how we got down alive I 'll never know |
| 2 | So after that I would never let him out to play , but then a social worker came to complain that I was keeping him in and away from other children . " |
| 3 | After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift ! |
| 4 | He even flew backwards sometimes , though how he managed this I 'll never know . |
| 5 | ‘ This I will never see . |
| 6 | you see I , that 's where I 'm different I could never ever do something like that to anyone . |
| 7 | Michael 's 61-year-old widowed mother , Iris , said as another daughter , Heather , comforted her : ‘ I 'm afraid I might never see him again . ’ |
| 8 | And of course there were still a few who would never have dreamt of asking themselves whether they could afford anything , with the attitude to money of an Algernon Moncrieff . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid you 'll never love me . ’ |
| 10 | 1980 ) ( see note 1 on page 75 ) , and the accuracy of the prediction technique is relatively weak , there is considerable potential for wrongly identifying some who will never abuse ( false positive ) and missing others who will abuse ( false negative ) . |
| 11 | There were some who could never bring themselves to attempt to take a dispassionate look at the reasons why American policy-makers ( and above all Eisenhower ) should have acted as they did . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , ill luck , in his case compounded by ill judgement , dogs the unsuccessful , and the only way into the sport , for some who should never be in it , is around the less successful teams . |
| 13 | Alice , helpfully squatting by him , thought : This one would never make a boss ; he 's an employee ; he ca n't work without somebody holding his hand . |
| 14 | Only that this one will never hurt you … |
| 15 | ‘ Well , judging from the size of the village , there may well be room for us if we 're to be content with small animals only , but I 'm afraid we 'll never get any farm work . |
| 16 | Ponyboy feels he should become tough to fit in with his friends , but soon realises that by doing this he would never achieve a better life . |
| 17 | He made it clear he could never acknowledge my existence to his family and I did n't expect him to . |
| 18 | Jenny , now happily married , cried when she heard her torturer was dead and said : ‘ I 'm relieved I will never again feel my stomach churn when a man with his silhouette passes me in the street ’ . |
| 19 | In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke ! |
| 20 | He would never admit to himself that this was because Jeopardy seemed beyond him ; Lucien was convinced he could never be included in Jeopardy 's elite circle of friends , and so it was easier to dislike him , to pick fault and criticise . |
| 21 | There I ca n't say that that is right you should never appoint a . |
| 22 | next thing I remember was being undressed and in bed with Debbie standing there with a boiled egg on a tray , saying mummy were so sorry you 'll never do Christmas again , you 've done it for us for forty years , we shall do it for you now . |
| 23 | Something so awful she would never be able to put it past her . |
| 24 | ‘ Ellen , you know as well as I do that she can never forget me ! |
| 25 | ‘ You are so closed into your fairy-tale world of happy ever after that you 'll never bring yourself to form a relationship with a flesh and blood man ; you 're half dead , Claudia ; you live surrounded by wedding dresses , but you 'll never be able to bring yourself to wear one . |
| 26 | ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ For I say to you , unless you become as one of these you shall never enter the kingdom of Heaven . |
| 28 | ‘ That lucky you 'll never be ! ’ she declared as alarm , a dreadful feeling of alarm , seized her . |
| 29 | By the time we reached Tony it was obvious we would never find a crossing point . |
| 30 | If it is sloping to the right so much that it is nearly parallel with the diagonal it will never be completed unless drastic action is taken . |