Example sentences of "[pron] could never " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never rise so high . |
| 2 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 3 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 4 | I could never believe how much such a beautiful , tiny dog could alter the lives of so many people in such a short time . |
| 5 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
| 6 | I could never get over the transformation of the vast auditorium by the dimming of the lights , the beautiful changes of colour on the curtains , and the anticipation brought on by the roaring lion , the muscle man with his gong the snow capped mountain , the searchlights probing the 20th Century . |
| 7 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 8 | I could never really work out the basis of his friendship with Steve and Paul They were pretty street-wise while he was just odd . |
| 9 | I could never make head or tails of that . |
| 10 | But I could never really make enough . |
| 11 | I knew I could never live with them again , but I thought … |
| 12 | I could never get the hang of them things at all . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got a tiny head and I could never find hats to fit . |
| 14 | Of the programmes I 've watched-not all of them , let me confess-only the third , on the dhow in the Gulf seemed to enter into a wholly unknown , and dangerous environment , a way of life I could never have imagined . |
| 15 | You can hear it in the jazz metal fills in ‘ Glam Slam ’ and ‘ U Got the Look ’ , in the way the West Coast power pop of ‘ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ’ subsides brilliantly into a brooding meander of acid guitar , in the raga anthem ‘ The Cross , … |
| 16 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 17 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ said Aunt Louise quickly , and with such authority and finality that I dismissed homes from my mind . |
| 18 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 20 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 21 | ‘ I could never put him into a home . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I could never put Dad into a home . ’ |
| 23 | I refrained , saying that I could never in any circumstances read poetry aloud in public . |
| 24 | ‘ I could never have done that . |
| 25 | I could never see her thick black tuft of pubic hair without longing to go with my father into that dark Moravian pine forest , stretching all the way from the Carpathians , which surrounded our home . |
| 26 | I could never have gone to live in that house . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That 's why I could never be a Tory . ’ |
| 28 | In the cities it might be a neighbour up the street who took the part of grandparent , as for the Stoke pottery fireman 's son whose mother was always seeking advice from ‘ your Grandma Coates ’ — ‘ I could never find out what relative she was to me mother . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , I could never be sure exactly what was required of me on these occasions . |
| 30 | ‘ I have never actually married ’ , she says , ‘ I find the marriage vows preposterous , I could never imagine myself making them . |