Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] never [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 2 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 3 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 4 | One is married already , one has declared that she will never take a husband , and the third has two suitors after her as it is . |
| 5 | He understood that you can never change a singer 's personality to fit a role . |
| 6 | But I was going to say that you will never find a purer woman than Mercy Chant . |
| 7 | She had some idea that you should never wake a sleep-walker . |
| 8 | Erm it suggests that you should never appoint a solicitor or a bank for the reasons of cost . |
| 9 | The BSIA stresses that you should never buy a system from someone who casually turns up on your doorstep . |
| 10 | I very much hope that we shall never see a return to those bad old days . |
| 11 | Although they discussed the mystery at length , it was clear that they would never reach a solution to the puzzle of the man 's presence at Thorsbury and whether or not it was with Tamar 's knowledge . |
| 12 | Some had lost faith in their marriage , some in hope for promotion , some on discovering that they would never have a child . |
| 13 | She saw , too , that they would never get a better moment to start the final , grand hudson . |
| 14 | And this money would have to be spent in the knowledge that it would never produce a profit , only the hope of a safer world . |
| 15 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 16 | Whether this visit took place after Anselm 's return to England in September 1100 is unclear , but Anselm left the pope in no doubt about his view of the matter , and the pope promised to send no legate with authority over Canterbury during Anselm 's life time ; but it is clear that he did not , and could not , accept the Canterbury claim made by Anselm , that he should never appoint a legate in England other than the archbishop himself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Tests had proved that he could never father a child . |
| 19 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |