Example sentences of "[conj] you never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Really , Sandy , you ought to knock or you never know what you 'll find , ’ he said in a plummy voice . |
| 2 | And even things like the cocktail side I mean , although you never use it , it 's a bit of a joke , I mean it actually fits into American bit dun n it ? |
| 3 | ‘ No , of course not ; her tactics are slightly more subtle , although you never know … ’ |
| 4 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 5 | I do n't know that I 've got any ambitions that way although you never know , do you now , what they say there 's many a good tune played on an old fiddle I thought you was going to say old women do n't , older women do n't appeal to me , but what about the one who raped me when I was thirteen ? |
| 6 | Ah and I tell you daddy you never keep , and your mum that you never keep |
| 7 | You can sue the professionals — builders , architects , surveyors or engineers — by courtesy of the Defective Premises Act 1972 , despite the fact that you never had a contract with them yourself . |
| 8 | You will probably tell me that you never had 1,000 farthings of your own in the world , but , prisoner , that makes no difference . |
| 9 | And a fight on my hands that you never experienced . ’ |
| 10 | That you never hear or see today . |
| 11 | I do so hope that you never fall prey to any of the crippling diseases within our society because maybe then you will come to appreciate the need for these experiments . |
| 12 | You always say that you never get two children the same , they 're |
| 13 | ‘ I have many reasons for doing it , the principal among them quite simply being to ensure that you never get your hands on my sister . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I imagine , darling , that you never asked . ’ |
| 15 | I was the one in hide-and-seek that you never came looking for and I hid for hours from no-one … . |
| 16 | The really interesting thing — really staggering — is that you never came close to noticing . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover , when you have a pet , even if it is only a goldfish , it means that you never come home to an empty house . |
| 18 | There was a leather armchair and kitchen chairs which matched , and brass firedogs and a fender — in fact things that you never saw under the same roof in our district . |
| 19 | There was a feeling that you never saw a policeman . |
| 20 | You need to establish trust with solicitors which means that you never poach the client , and it is possible to prepare and sign a protocol to that effect . |
| 21 | Most knitters would agree , that you never stop learning once you have a machine ; but what you make on it is not necessarily dependent on yours being the most up to date you can buy , or how many accessories you have . |
| 22 | Another attractive feature of an actuary 's work is that you never stop learning — both on your own account and from your colleagues . |
| 23 | Pray to your God and anyone else you know that you never land up in the power of Fitzosbert , in one of those Godforsaken cells ! ’ |
| 24 | Many girls said to me that you never recover from anorexia or bulimia or compulsive eating , but having suffered from all three for over seven years , I can say very strongly that this need not be true . |
| 25 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 26 | Do n't you agree that you never know what you are going to find there but on the other hand if you ignore the expiry date and crunch it all up with a lot of jam , or even a lot of Nivea , it all goes down the red lane and things start to brighten up ? |
| 27 | Tomorrow 's World presenter Maggie , 36 , said : ‘ One thing we have learned from alcoholism is that you never know what 's going to happen . ’ |
| 28 | The trouble with trying to fool policemen is that you never know how much they know , which is always more than they admit . |
| 29 | As Colonel Gordon Wilkinson puts it : ‘ The big thing about services catering is that you never know what 's going to happen next . |
| 30 | And the trouble with ‘ sometimes ’ is that you never know when to expect it . |