Example sentences of "would never [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All my classmates and tutors said I 'd never get away with it .
2 Well , this is truth time , and even though she warned me I 'd never get away with it , I can not live a lie .
3 ‘ You see ’ ( I would explain , I would be reasonable ) , ‘ even if I were willing to perjure myself , I 'd never get away with it .
4 You 'd never get away with it today
5 I often thought I could win money on predicting results/scores , but a/ You 'd never win much without risking an awful lot and b/ I reckon the odds are fixed even more in the bookies favour on footy , than with GGs .
6 He wished he 'd never come right into the house .
7 ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her .
8 Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous .
9 It was against her nature to tell anything but the whitest of white lies , but she was of necessity getting better at it , though it would never sit comfortably with her conscience and her sense of fairness and justice .
10 She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them .
11 She had found her island of happiness and would never swim away from it .
12 They shivered at the word cold and soon the skies and seas were busy with the story of the brave little bird who rode the cold with a grinning beak and a devoted seal who would never swim far from her side .
13 But he would never talk badly about Kenneth Horne , or about the writers . ’
14 And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived .
15 Dawn is particularly inquisitive , and I soon discovered she would never fly properly in a new area without investigating it first , even if I was holding out food for her .
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