Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Tormey one of the ‘ purest ’ instances of representational behaviour is that of an actor who rages on stage as Lear but who could not possibly be expressing his own rage or he would never complete the performance . |
| 2 | ‘ The new owner of the Enderley estate is a hard man , or he 'd never have the heart to turn her out , even if he does want her cottage for a gamekeeper . |
| 3 | Francis understood all of this , of course , or he 'd never have done it . |
| 4 | They are submissive but dignified , with that look of yearning that brings to mind Ehrenburg 's comment that Modigliani saw all his subjects as lost children : his own Jeanne , Zborowski , and perhaps most of all , although he would never admit it , he himself come into that category . |
| 5 | Although he 'll never walk again , he 'll get the help he needs to live as full a life as possible . |
| 6 | He said although he can never give an absolute undertaking on public expenditure , he has assured diocesan officials that the schools are expected to satisfy new funding criteria for 1993–94 . |
| 7 | At the age of 21 — with real fears that he may never work again — Mike is a statistic that should shame John Major . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 11 | Noel now swears that he 'll never drink and drive again . |
| 12 | COUNTRY star Daniel O'Donnell sets out on a 46-date UK tour next week … after fears that he might never perform again . |
| 13 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 14 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 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 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 17 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 18 | He had practically made up his mind that he would never go back — certainly not to Moyalla and probably not to teaching . |
| 19 | PAUL HODKINSON , who recently feared that he would never box again , returns to action in front of his home-town supporters at Kirkby Sports Centre tonight to defend his European featherweight title against Farid Benredjeb of France . |
| 20 | Mark knew that he would never be promoted after the Steiner incident so he concluded he must indeed be on his way out , or being moved sideways . |
| 21 | Nigel had got her measure enough by now to know that he would never be allowed to insist on anything , so he approached the subject carefully . |
| 22 | Frankie liked Nanny 's house because it was warm and brightly lit , but he was rarely allowed to go there alone because Smallfry knew things about it that he would never understand . |
| 23 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 24 | He once swore , he said , that he would never give up his freedom and take on such a big post , but now here he is . |
| 25 | In the Old Testament , after the Great Flood , we 're told that God sent his rainbow as a sign of his agreement or covenant , that he would never again attempt to destroy the peoples of the world . |
| 26 | Whereas they made it clear to his wife that they would never forsake her , they also made it clear to Tawell that he would never be accepted . |
| 27 | He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana . |
| 28 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 29 | In the North , people wondered why Morrissey took a flat in a fashionable area of London after he had openly pledged that he would never leave his home city . |
| 30 | It was more than Phil could bear to think that he would never again be there to make Christmas sparkle for her . |