Example sentences of "[that] i could never " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 2 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I refrained , saying that I could never in any circumstances read poetry aloud in public . |
| 5 | I knew that I could never have done it . |
| 6 | Coupled with ‘ God ’ went something else that I could never find , and which was much talked about . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She knows , Ruth thought , that I could never take another bite from her . |
| 10 | " I used to teach , " said Mrs Denham , " but I was always so afraid of being boring that I could never talk for long enough . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ the bit that I could never figure out was that ablark , araan , aroon refrain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I assured Aunt Lavvy that it was so , and that I could never coerce an unwilling female . |
| 16 | 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 . |