Example sentences of "never [vb infin] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one thing I could never do was please my mother . |
| 2 | His touch was as she remembered it , warm and gentle , but as he gently returned her foot to the ground she again felt shy — absurdly and ridiculously shy , when she could never remember being so taken by shyness before — and she just had to look away from him while she collected herself . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're crazy about each other and should never have been apart this last year , but it 's fate , you see , coming here and bumping into them like that in that restaurant . ’ |
| 4 | Yet we can now see that Castells 's all-embracing theory could never have been straightforwardly extended to the particular kinds of class and social relations constituting particular societies and localities . |
| 5 | Judgments will be made on human remains , associated funerary objects , unassociated funerary materials ( typically associated with funerary remains , but not clearly from graves ) , as well as ‘ cultural patrimony ’ ( communally owned objects , that therefore could never have been legally sold ) , and religious objects ( necessary for ongoing practice of religious ritual ) . |
| 6 | But , in itself , this would never have been enough . |
| 7 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 8 | He fired the jack into the ditch and Essex had the best back bowl to take a single and win the match although , after a tremendous start , it should never have been so close . |
| 9 | Afterwards , she lay naked , warm and quiescent in the curve of his arm , listening to his laboured breathing , feeling the fast , steady beat of his heart as it thundered against her cheek , knowing that it could never have been so good , so satisfying for both of them if she had n't loved him . |
| 10 | ‘ It was pure sex , and I should never have been so damn crazy ! |
| 11 | You should never have been so eager to pay so much for so poor a privilege . ’ |
| 12 | He can never have been more anonymous . |
| 13 | Though they may never have been more vulnerable — as Peterborough demonstrated in the Rumbelows Cup — Liverpool are the most experienced team in the last four of the FA Cup . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it is my belief that without us , feminism would never have been more than a caucus of the broad left . |
| 15 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 16 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 17 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 18 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 19 | So in reality they need never have been all at exactly the same place , only very close together . |