Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] never [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to be , he had to do something or they would never have er got In other ways in was a lenient school because as the years went by it was , a register was called , a teacher er opened a book and we called numbers . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose No they would n't have any warning about this going to happen or they would never have taking a lot of bairns down among it . |
| 3 | Desire , yes , of course , or they would never have ended up like this , but also a reluctant fascination and a curiously protective tendency that she found both touching and revealing . |
| 4 | They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision . |
| 5 | You 've got to knock some sense into them or they 'd never do a stroke . |
| 6 | Some patients are helped by knowing this is available although they may never use it . |
| 7 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 8 | Neither knew that they would never meet again . |
| 9 | Boston might have succeeded in snubbing Mrs Gardner , but she made sure that they would never forget her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Several families who lived in the same settlement decided to leave as a result of her behaviour , and others insisted that they would never go to live in the same place as her . |
| 12 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 13 | It was often obvious from the start that they would never lead to anything and this made those who were more settled openly contemptuous . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Anxiety for example , is something that human beings will always experience , and to think that you can free them from anxiety in some future utopia , or go back to some ordered erm , ideal state in the past , where everyone was so secure , that they would never feel anxiety , is just a myth according to Freud . |
| 16 | Two hotspots had come loose , damaging pistons and the block , Good buy ( sic ) one Land Rover Another garage has since told us that they would never carry out a hotspot replacement on a diesel Land Rover engine and that a new cylinder head is the only solution . |
| 17 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 18 | Many activists in Paisley 's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party . |
| 19 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 20 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 21 | Some had lost faith in their marriage , some in hope for promotion , some on discovering that they would never have a child . |
| 22 | Millie thought that they would never cease praying . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She saw , too , that they would never get a better moment to start the final , grand hudson . |
| 26 | Whereas they made it clear to his wife that they would never forsake her , they also made it clear to Tawell that he would never be accepted . |
| 27 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 28 | Jack now discovered that the Motion Picture Association of America had given it an ‘ X ’ rating and Columbia — who were to release the Movie for general distribution — had a policy at that time that they would never release an X-rated picture . |
| 29 | I was beginning to feel that they would never come — especially when half the class disappeared on the last week . |
| 30 | When they were away , there was always the worry that they would never come back but when they got home , they always brought with them gossip of other places and other people . |