Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] never have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grace commented , ‘ Robbie is a lovely dog and I could n't give him up now , but I would never have dreamt that rescuing a dog could cause me to lose my home . |
| 2 | But I would never have asked her . |
| 3 | But I would never have considered marrying someone I did n't admire greatly . |
| 4 | she said now that looks artificial , but I would never have thought the |
| 5 | But I should never have let you slip away so easily . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm too young for pearls , ’ she teased , ‘ and I have shoes enough , but I can never have enough of romance . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I know , ’ Kitty said , ‘ but I 'd never have thought of it without you , it just would n't have crossed my mind . |
| 8 | I did n't want her to be evacuated without me , but I 'd never have left the old ladies . ’ |
| 9 | I was a lot more worried about you — versatile I might be , but I 'd never have been able to do the make-up you 've created ! ’ |
| 10 | But you 'll never have the strength to send me away — you 're so weak , Bob , that it embarrasses me — and in the end the job will fall to me ; I shall have to send myself away . |
| 11 | But you would never have got anyone at Crunchem Hall to admit that the Headmistress was a less formidable foe than the famous Frenchman . |
| 12 | At one time she might have wanted to sit among the crowd , to escape from the prying eyes , but she would never have had the confidence to say so . |
| 13 | He must be past thirty now , but she would never have believed he could have grown to make such a gross figure of a man . |
| 14 | ‘ But she could never have been like me with an audience . ’ |
| 15 | But she could never have imagined the bright colours that filled her brain — a vivid , intoxicating , shifting kaleidoscope of wonder and pleasure and excitement and joy . |
| 16 | She could n't bear the thought of such an evil trade operating on her territory , but she could never have hoped to crack it herself . |
| 17 | But we would never have dreamt of talking about it . |
| 18 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 19 | ‘ But they would never have reacted to just our pictures or our ceramics . |
| 20 | ‘ Rough you up a little , yes ; but they would never have killed you . |
| 21 | But they could never have imagined the extent to which their fame would spread , so much so that today , at certain times of the year , visitors to the spa almost double Baden 's population . |
| 22 | But they 'd never have bothered me . |
| 23 | But he would never have harmed the King . |
| 24 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 25 | But he 'll never have a mortgage . |
| 26 | A Member of Parliament may deeply regret what he said in the heat of a debate ; but he can never have the record changed on the plea of ‘ I did n't mean to say that . ’ |
| 27 | He reared you , but he could never have understood you . ’ |
| 28 | They were not unkind people , not mean-minded , but it would never have occurred to them to offer to help . |
| 29 | But it would never have worked for us . |