Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] never [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 2 | It 's a form of monologue , of course , and I could never stand before a learned judge and be cross-questioned by counsel and state upon oath all that that tree says to me . |
| 3 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ said Aunt Louise quickly , and with such authority and finality that I dismissed homes from my mind . |
| 4 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ she said . |
| 5 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 6 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 7 | I could never work with a man like that and I told him so . |
| 8 | The Def Leppard singer , at No 10 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , admits : ‘ I could never get into a plane and smash things up like some stars do . |
| 9 | Anyway , I 'd never come across a place like it . |
| 10 | ‘ I would never go into a match in the Premier League if I had any doubts about the injury . |
| 11 | I know some readers wo n't agree that a hard slap on the bottom or leg wo n't hurt , but I would never agree to a clip round the ear or head . |
| 12 | I want to take part in a few more races next year and you 'll never hear of a plump jockey winning races . ’ |
| 13 | The me who said she 'd never stay in a hostel again was now on her way to a night shelter . |
| 14 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 15 | Yes , I said , look at them crows , he says to me , they know it 's Sunday because you 'd never shoot on a Sunday . |
| 16 | You could never dance with a . |
| 17 | ‘ You can never legislate for a loss of confidence . |
| 18 | ‘ You can never tell with a Brit , can you ? |
| 19 | We should never enter into a project without trying to get a |
| 20 | Do n't let us lost a year , if we let them use turmoil in the industry as an excuse for not meeting us , we will never sit round a table with them again . |
| 21 | But staff at Earlys say they 'll never go on a package holiday again . |
| 22 | But staff at Earlys say they 'll never go on a package holiday again . |
| 23 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 24 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 25 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 26 | If little Jimmy 's mother tells everyone that they can never go on a long journey because little Jimmy is always car-sick , then you can be sure that little Jimmy always will be car-sick . |
| 27 | A male may not be aware or the possibility or a female 's alternative reading of what an object constitutes or signifies ; similarly , it may never occur to a member of a one social class that some revered object may be subject to a parodied and subversive interpretation by members of another . |
| 28 | It might result in a variety of a certain species , but it could never result in a completely new species . |
| 29 | He was tall and strong and beautiful but he could never think like a man or a king . |
| 30 | He vowed there and then he 'd never return to a tournament like that ; he felt that a man of his stature should n't be playing in what was , after all , a second-rate event while the Masters was on . |