Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd better write that down or I 'll never remember it specially with er what comes next ? |
| 2 | WIGAN boss John Monie has warned British rugby league : ‘ Get your act together or you 'll never be world champions . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't let her in or I 'll never get any lunch . |
| 4 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 5 | The money we shall earn will just about keep us in clothes and stamps , so that we 'll never be able to afford holidays together because of the huge train fares . |
| 6 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |
| 7 | In practice however awareness is unequal , variable , uncertain , with impassable limits even in the case of self-knowledge , so that we can never take the full measure of our reactions from all viewpoints ; like the child wondering whether to risk another helping at dinner , we require an ‘ ought ’ whenever we are losing sight of the reaction at an unsustainable height of awareness . |
| 8 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 9 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 10 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 11 | The conclusion drawn in the Malleus Maleficarum , the handbook on witchcraft written in 1486 by two Dominican friars , was that this made tears displeasing to the Devil , and he made it impossible for witches to cry so that they would never find repentance . |
| 12 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 13 | Nicholson remained slightly ahead of his group so that they could never quite see the expression of disdain of his face . |
| 14 | She would have liked to dissolve into him and become part of him , so that she could never be subject to his indifference , or even be looked at by him in any objective way . |
| 15 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 16 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 17 | Wycliffe always forced himself to envisage every detail of a murder so that he would never become reconciled to the enormity of the crime . |
| 18 | ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’ |
| 19 | His heart was set on her so that he could never relax — this love was so strong . |
| 20 | I keep it inside my head , so that you 'll never see it , or anything like it … ’ |
| 21 | Thorny uses all kinds of things I would never have known about , she finds fungi in the woods , horrible brown oozing stuff , and cooks them so that you would never know . |
| 22 | Frighten you away , so that you 'd never come back . |
| 23 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 24 | A real home with animals , and a huge fire where you can roast chestnuts on winter evenings , and a studio with lockers built in , so that I 'd never have to tidy up ! ’ |
| 25 | That each morning , like a beautiful woman , it will reveal some hidden facet to me so that I will never be bored with its presence . ’ |
| 26 | He demonstrated a feeling for drama and a determination to tell the tale so that it would never be forgotten . |
| 27 | So they had a meeting and decided they would put a big net over the entrance to the valley so that it would never be able to get in again . |
| 28 | Anyway , you could scratch up the rifling with a file and steel wool so that it would never give the same markings on a bullet again . ’ |
| 29 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , the governor of the Bank of England , in a speech in Hamburg on Jan. 22 , maintained that " the hard ecu would not be victim to the pitfalls of other parallel currency schemes because it would be defined so that it could never be devalued against other ERM currencies in a realignment " . |
| 30 | At the start of his first visit — to Thailand on Sept. 26-30 — the Emperor told King Bhumibol Adulyadej that Japan had " resolved that it would live as a nation of peace , so that it should never repeat the horrors of that most unfortunate war " , and that Japan had made " unremitting efforts " to build " new friendships " in the region . |