Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 2 | Although they discussed the mystery at length , it was clear that they would never reach a solution to the puzzle of the man 's presence at Thorsbury and whether or not it was with Tamar 's knowledge . |
| 3 | We were never confident the system was going to fly , and towards the end it became clear that they would never recover the cost of the investment ’ . |
| 4 | From this it was clear that he would never renounce the latter post . |
| 5 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |
| 6 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 7 | It is clear that she will never marry and have children , follow a career enjoy the leisure interests of her own age group or otherwise enjoy the quality of life which so many take for granted . |
| 8 | I felt free that I would never have to go back . ’ |
| 9 | The sharpness of the terror he had felt during her illness had revealed to him just how much he loved her , and once she began to recover he had been afraid that they would never again be able to talk simply as friends . |
| 10 | Transport has so many social implications of one kind or another that there can never be an arm 's length relationship … |
| 11 | Yet in the time it would take her to reach the café , tell Oliver and return with him , the flat would be empty and she would never know who her intruder was . |
| 12 | And thought : and Floy is going off into the midst of all these and it is perfectly possible that I shall never see him again . |
| 13 | James Woodforde , ever a reliable source for the minutiae of late 18th-century life , wrote on 25 January 1794 that he could never remember having seen the barometer lower ; a savage and relentless winter was setting in throughout Britain and the rest of Europe . |
| 14 | How very strange that I should never have seen that . |
| 15 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 16 | For several days after his death she had lain in the sagging double bed with a bolster by her side to stop her rolling into the hollow created by Nahum 's bulk , unaware that he would never again make the springs protest at his weight . |
| 17 | I think we will continue to have a degree of volatility in markets we 've not experienced previously and I think the way the market maker has to interpret his role now is such that we will never get the sort of fine tuning that the old jobbing system could provide . |
| 18 | Sometimes I have wondered myself , but have made so many friends and learnt so much that I can never regret the decision . |
| 19 | ‘ We are worried that the damage to the ankle is so serious that there will never be a full recovery for professional sports activity , ’ said Professor Marc Martens after he had operated on the AC Milan player for more than an hour in Antwerp . |
| 20 | Whenever Preston said anything that sounded remotely like Famous Last Words , he always said something else quickly , something so trite and meaningless that it could never tempt Fate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He 'd given her so much and she would never forget him , but she would never confuse what they had shared with that elusive emotion — love . |
| 23 | Well they are ignorant cos I would never say which part of . |
| 24 | It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing , since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks . |
| 25 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 26 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 27 | A couple more sessions like that and you 'll never have to worry about mosquitoes again . ’ |
| 28 | Yes but heavens you know you 'll never climb with that and you 'll never climb the stairs |
| 29 | But do that and she 'd never get them on again , and she would arrive at Ardneavie not only late , but shoeless ! |
| 30 | He had hung the battered sword over the spice cupboard in Lucille 's kitchen , and had claimed to be glad that he would never again have to draw the war-dulled blade from its metal scabbard . |