Example sentences of "they could never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again . |
| 2 | They were actors in a world of secret agents , codenames and mysterious papers : a place where ordinary values and rules were possibly suspended , although they could never be quite sure of that . |
| 3 | Probably no better than they should be , thieving and robbing at will , they were known as the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ ; Rannoch can be a misty place and the Macgregors would appear , take your goods and chattels , and anything else not nailed down , then disappear again , into the mists of Rannoch Moor where they could never be found . |
| 4 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 5 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 6 | Firstly , changing external factors meant that many plans became rapidly out of date and so they could never be implemented properly . |
| 7 | They could never be of lower caste than herself and the principle of lineage exogamy applied . |
| 8 | They could never be allowed to leave the place alive . |
| 9 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 10 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |