Example sentences of "he could never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could never be happy with morning prayer and not the sacrament as the chief morning service . |
| 2 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 3 | Tom said that he could never be sure , but he suspected his father had had affairs throughout his marriage , perhaps with prostitutes . |
| 4 | He could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness , become a mere servant of art , willing to learn from anyone ; he would sit patiently at the bedsides of the sick and dying , painting unhappy men and women and feeling awe before peasant earth-mothers , but he could never be coerced into doing anything against his will . |
| 5 | One would never know ; and meantime the devil was in him , Paul Arkwright , in his blood , for life , and he could never be rid of it ; yet he must live , and work , and write , and surely marry . |
| 6 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 7 | I was friendly with him and admired his taste and style but he could never be induced to look seriously at my paintings . |
| 8 | He could never be an exception ; he is dependent on the health of his society , needing the sandy smiles of Rolf and Rudolph , of Rudiger , of Reinhard . |
| 9 | He would never admit to himself that this was because Jeopardy seemed beyond him ; Lucien was convinced he could never be included in Jeopardy 's elite circle of friends , and so it was easier to dislike him , to pick fault and criticise . |
| 10 | He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in . |
| 11 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 12 | He could never be sure ; she was alternately a person you could convince of anything , however unreasonable , and a person you could convince of nothing . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the fact that Kaifu did not lead any of the LDP 's factions meant that he could never be entirely secure , as he remained vulnerable to the will of the party 's factional power-brokers . |
| 14 | He could never be Shiona 's , even if he wanted her , and there was nothing to indicate that he really did . |
| 15 | ‘ Fancy falling in love with the same man twice — when I knew he could never be interested in me ! ’ |