Example sentences of "never have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They may never have heard one of her records , but when Joe Longthorne , or any of those impressionists who have made a career perfecting the quiver of her lip , does his Shirley Bassey everyone knows who he means . |
| 32 | I should never have sent that valentine — forgive me — it was a thoughtless thing to do . ’ |
| 33 | A moralistic middle-class press or the civic or football authorities themselves would never have ignored systematic gang-violence either in football grounds or around them . |
| 34 | Because her stepmother would never have made such a suggestion . |
| 35 | Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference . |
| 36 | If Simon had n't had other things on his mind — if he had n't been distracted by you — ’ the word burst from him with a violence which made her recoil ‘ — he would never have made that fatal error . ’ |
| 37 | This purely pictorial device is something we should never have imagined possible in fifth-century sculpture if we did not have it before us . |
| 38 | Manager Graham freely admits he could never have imagined this threesome getting just one goal between them from six games . |
| 39 | ‘ Mike would never have shot this Barak in the back , ’ Sabrina said once Kolchinsky had finished . |
| 40 | Marx could never have accepted such a view . |
| 41 | Charity would never have accepted simple precepts from anyone else . |
| 42 | Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours . |
| 43 | He would never have supported cooperative politics had he thought that it would develop a Cooperative Party , pure and simple , antagonistic to the main democratic Labour movement . |
| 44 | I 'd never have guessed that . |
| 45 | This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . |
| 46 | Ann would never have taken such a step of her own accord . |
| 47 | We should have had , at best , a continuous middle-of-the-road government which could never have taken radical reforming measures . |
| 48 | If she had not learned to clean so thoroughly she would never have taken each and every picture off the wall to dust both the picture and the wall behind . |
| 49 | We would never have produced such alternatives because experience has shown that enormous pressure would be placed on the auditor to move something in or out of normalised earnings . ’ |
| 50 | And I often think to myself , when I 'm paying for something , think to myself , oh I would never have paid that years ago . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | ( Of course , Boy would never have used that word , husband , that 's my word . |
| 53 | The Government should never have used high interest rates alone . |
| 54 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 55 | In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony . |
| 56 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 57 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 58 | would never have known that would you ? |
| 59 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 60 | ‘ In retrospect , we should never have allowed that to happen . |