Example sentences of "[pers pn] could never [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never stand the worry of her taking her wires off . |
| 2 | OK , educate the child , educate the dog , but I could never let a child of mine walk around a ring with a big , powerful dog like that , because it is a big , powerful vicious beast . |
| 3 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 4 | I could never understand the logic of taking the doe rabbits away to warren systems . |
| 5 | After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift ! |
| 6 | I could never get the hang of them things at all . ’ |
| 7 | I could never get the bus here . |
| 8 | In pencil , she could never capture the blueness of his eyes . |
| 9 | And now she knew she could never escape the past , as she had hoped . |
| 10 | She could never like the man , because of what he was , but he had been kind to her considering he was her inquisitor . |
| 11 | You could never grow a carnation which had all the colours of the Union Flag , but it is quite easy to make one using food dyes . |
| 12 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 13 | It was a cake you never got in England , because there the milk did not have to be boiled and so you could never collect a bowlful of creamy skin from successive goes . |
| 14 | Always , we could never keep a kettle of hot water in the house . |
| 15 | They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision . |
| 16 | They could never know the fire-opal of her meanings . |
| 17 | Because they were never insulated , they could never keep the heat in nor the cold out and our bedrooms were sometimes colder than outside . |
| 18 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 19 | Throughout his career , Marinello was forced to live in the shadow of George Best ; he could never match the Irishman 's natural skill and in his defence , he never demonstrated Best 's incredible appetite for self-destruction . |
| 20 | He could never wash a cup up because they were all on the draining board . |
| 21 | His stress on music 's ‘ social content ’ meant that he could never accept the tendency of positivist music sociology to treat genres , styles and forms as so much freely-existing data . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Aureole had got into top gear and came through into second place , but try as he might he could never pose a threat to Pinza , who galloped on relentlessly to win by four lengths , with Pink Horse running on to take third place a length and a half further adrift and the gallant Shikampur a tired fourth . |
| 23 | Tests had proved that he could never father a child . |
| 24 | He could never get the leverage to force that open , and there was no inside keyhole , of course . |
| 25 | Once she was better , he insisted on starting again , explaining to the young woman that he could never resume a canvas that had been abandoned . |
| 26 | ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He could never resist a cherry , ’ said a soft voice , and they all turned . |
| 28 | She was perfectly calm , perfectly quiet , and had nothing to say , other than a reiteration of her previous statement , to wit , ‘ he could never resist a cherry ’ . |
| 29 | He could never trust a woman again . |
| 30 | From time to time Mr Salmon used to read to me from his morning paper , but as he could never find a mention of the Royal Fusiliers I did n't discover what the old man was up to . |