Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably no better than they should be , thieving and robbing at will , they were known as the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ ; Rannoch can be a misty place and the Macgregors would appear , take your goods and chattels , and anything else not nailed down , then disappear again , into the mists of Rannoch Moor where they could never be found . |
| 2 | They ca n't consider everybody or they could never make a decision . |
| 3 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 4 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | I refrained , saying that I could never in any circumstances read poetry aloud in public . |
| 7 | I knew that I could never have done it . |
| 8 | Coupled with ‘ God ’ went something else that I could never find , and which was much talked about . |
| 9 | Back when I was with a certain company — I wo n't mention who — they had a situation that I could never have imagined : they did n't have a guitar player on staff ! |
| 10 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 11 | She knows , Ruth thought , that I could never take another bite from her . |
| 12 | " I used to teach , " said Mrs Denham , " but I was always so afraid of being boring that I could never talk for long enough . |
| 13 | This was perhaps due to obstinacy , but also due to a determined belief that I could never subscribe to the whole of the dogma of any political programme . |
| 14 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 15 | ‘ I tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ the bit that I could never figure out was that ablark , araan , aroon refrain . |
| 16 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 17 | I assured Aunt Lavvy that it was so , and that I could never coerce an unwilling female . |
| 18 | I had lost you once before because of my stupidity but now here was something else that completely undermined me — a tiny baby , a hold over you that I could never compete with . |
| 19 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 20 | And it was as if she had glimpsed the celestial city knowing that she could never enter in . |
| 21 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 22 | It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator . |
| 23 | She once told me that she could never commit suicide because of her curiosity about what was going to happen next . |
| 24 | Long afterwards Ruth realised that this was the moment when she had learned that she could never come first with him . |
| 25 | They were shadows that she could never have imagined when , as a young girl , she had run along the cold sands of Northumberland and watched the east wind flatten and fold the dunes as she dreamed of a bigger , more exciting world beyond — and away from her mother 's influence . |
| 26 | Tilly realised now that she could never tell her these things , and yet , she knew that the gentle Elizabeth had a right to know . |
| 27 | Watching her , he became aware of an extraordinary pain at the thought that she could never know how strongly he felt about her . |
| 28 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 29 | She would have liked to dissolve into him and become part of him , so that she could never be subject to his indifference , or even be looked at by him in any objective way . |
| 30 | There was no fear in her eyes : only hatred , and the knowledge that she could never , ever die . |