Example sentences of "[conj] we [modal v] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 2 | Get it together , Doyle , or we 'll never pin these bastards down … ’ |
| 3 | We started with provisioning the boat at the quay ( ’ Put the bloody whisky out of sight or we 'll never get shown in Saudi Arabia ’ ) and leaving the quay . |
| 4 | ‘ Keep moving , or we 'll never get there . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'm going to get ready or we 'll never get the shopping done before you go to work . |
| 6 | Anyway , I 'm going to get ready or we 'll never get the shopping done before you go to work . |
| 7 | " No , you must stay there , " said King Voukashan , " or we shall never build our town of Skadar . " |
| 8 | And then , impatiently , ‘ And now do come on , or we shall never get away . ’ |
| 9 | Although we must never give up hoping that Peter will recover from the terrible illness of addiction — for it is an illness — we 've been told to face the possibility that this might just never happen . |
| 10 | Thus , concludes Popper , although we can never attain to Ultimate Truth , we can and do continually get nearer to it … |
| 11 | Although we will never know officially , because the Lawn Tennis Association is understandably touchy and secretive about such matters , I would be highly surprised to discover that they lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event at the new National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in November . |
| 12 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 13 | Pam , most of the morning papers of course , have had er , glowing tributes , quite rightly so , to Danny Blanchflower , we 've had a lot of people on this morning saying that we 'll never see his like again . |
| 14 | My heart is always yours , even though the laws of God and man rule that we may never marry . |
| 15 | Let us pray that we may never misuse the knowledge and the skills which have been given to us . |
| 16 | Should there be an upheaval in the Ingard group now , I fear that we may never know . " |
| 17 | We both knew that we would never meet again . |
| 18 | So you see , in schools like that we would never go uniformed and we would have to discontinue visiting those schools as we would be jeopardizing the children and teachers . |
| 19 | ‘ It seemed that we would never reach the Bazaar . |
| 20 | The moment that that was decided , however , the fear was that we would never hear anything again about the link between Stratford and King 's Cross . |
| 21 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 22 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 23 | Let us start by saying that we shall never use ‘ explaining ’ ( or ‘ explanation ’ ) and ‘ understanding ’ interchangeably . |
| 24 | I very much hope that we shall never see a return to those bad old days . |
| 25 | That we shall never know , but the procession and service mark the start of two weeks of celebrations in his name . |
| 26 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |
| 27 | This claim about human nature is then followed by the assertion that we could never gain adequate evidence for a holist theory , and so could never give up our view of individuals as basically autonomous actors : |
| 28 | As far as I 'm concerned personally , I think it 's very , very weak , take it back and re-draft it and allow the employees to be in the control of their own destiny , because after a national fraud and a scandal that 's taken place that we could never trust any employer to carry out a scheme . |
| 29 | Morally , that is a vastly superior case to the one produced by the Government — and , alas , supported to some degree by the Opposition Front Bench — who say that we should fritter our resources so massively on something that we could never use . |
| 30 | It comes about as a result of our gratitude to God for his wiping out of a colossal debt that we could never have paid back ( Matt. |