Example sentences of "[prep] course [pron] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 2 | Of course we 'd never be sarcastic any of us would we ? |
| 3 | Of course you could never forget about it . |
| 4 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |
| 5 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course it will never happen , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 7 | I believe it is very important to judge a new settlement in terms of viability and sustainability on the availability of some significant element of jobs , of course it will never be self contained , erm but that is a very important factor , I do n't see that in the list of criteria . |
| 8 | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached ( unless somebody dredges up a ‘ living fossil ’ from the depths of the ocean ) — there are only varying degrees of probability . |
| 9 | ‘ If it were my sole decision , then of course , of course I would never press it . ’ |