Example sentences of "he [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ought never to have listened to Chambers ' advice on that . |
| 2 | He has no chance of facing the tourists after suffering his fourth shoulder dislocation in Llanelli 's narrow home win over Neath and has been warned by doctors that unless he has a second operation he may never play again . |
| 3 | ’ Anyone who has had the privilege of handling the book , even though he may never possess it , will not dispute the wisdom of the £13,000 it has fetched . |
| 4 | Though he may never have visited Leighton , he raised a considerable sum of money to repair the church . |
| 5 | Exactly how much each transaction costs him he may never know . |
| 6 | At the age of 21 — with real fears that he may never work again — Mike is a statistic that should shame John Major . |
| 7 | MIKE TYSON , the most dangerous fighting man on earth , has admitted he may never box again . |
| 8 | Agassi is , like Becker one of those players who plays straight from the heart , and unless he sorts out what stops him taking winning opportunities — on an emotional as well as technical level — he may never fulfil his incredible potential . |
| 9 | In one letter to Virginia Woolf , he described the plight of an author anxious and dissatisfied with the work he is doing , and aware of the fact that he may never be able to write anything again . |
| 10 | He may never appreciate the VIP treatment he is getting . |
| 11 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 12 | He may never put forward another ideas . |
| 13 | But like many other authors quoted by Ps. -Plutarch , he may never have existed . |
| 14 | He may never have envisioned a situation in which it would be possible to specify in some detail the characteristics of the phylogenetic id , the evolutionary starting-point from which the modern id-ego organization began . |
| 15 | He may never have decided to remove the money , and he did exactly what the shop had instructed him to do : put the money in the till . |
| 16 | A lot of people fear that if the Doctor is taken off for 18 months , he may never return . ’ |
| 17 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 18 | ‘ He should never have gone . ’ |
| 19 | He should never have let Lee go out on his own . |
| 20 | He should never defer to people . |
| 21 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 22 | Then I was angry , and said he should never come into my house , nor come near me , with my good will . |
| 23 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 24 | So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again . |
| 25 | He should never be regarded as someone only to be approached when a prescription is required or when some serious breakdown in health occurs . |
| 26 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 27 | He should never have taken on this penny-ante bounty hunt . |
| 28 | He should never forget that and I hope it haunts him forever . |
| 29 | ‘ Now I find out he should never have been on the road . |
| 30 | As it was , she had to think of something to say that would satisfy a man who was so evil he should never have been born . |