Example sentences of "shall never " in BNC.

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1 Stunned at the privilege , but I shall never understand you .
2 What the young Queen Victoria had to say about this , from her youthful posture on Sherbrooke Street , we shall never know .
3 At last there occurred , suddenly , a most strange event which I shall never forget ad which astonished me : the little girl flung her arms round my neck ad in a rush began kissing me frenziedly .
4 It 's strange as I look back ; friendships shall never be the same ; or opinions of Officers , especially Officers .
5 How I managed to pipe the intake seven-and-a-half miles to the Commando Camp at Achnacarry I shall never know .
6 Returning to the front of the croft I batter once more on the door , knowing full well that I shall never see her again .
7 But when they get a little older , they will cover their bodies up and the boy shall never again see his sisters ' beauty .
8 Probably you do not care enough for it to create a liking and a need , which we shall never be able to satisfy nevertheless , avoid it unless principle and pleasure and interest all advise it .
9 Perhaps I shall never rewrite it .
10 Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one .
11 Nothing came of his enquiries and the first ten days of October passed uneventfully with his praise of Helen 's ‘ lovely portion of that maidenliness which you shall never lose ’ .
12 Some things , such as whether the number of stars is odd or even , are totally hidden ; we shall never , could never , come to know the truth about that .
13 There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget .
14 What happened next is something I shall never forget , and I have thought of that moment incessantly ever since it happened .
15 I shall never forget Jordi 's face , his rueful smile , his fatalistic shrug as he was pushed into the car .
16 Several times Abraham brought the purposes of God to the edge of extinction , Isaac 's birth introduced yet further tragedy and the keenest disappointment , while how God 's promises survived Jacob 's cruelty and trickery we shall never know .
17 We shall never know whether he was counting Mark Twain .
18 ‘ The cheers melted into gasps of admiration and roars of approval from the stands as , in turn , this famous pair of chasers made some of the most prodigious leaps ever seen on an English racecourse , ’ wrote Len Thomas in the Sporting Life : ‘ It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . ’
19 It was a spectacle which I shall never forget .
20 Jesus said , I am the resurrection , and I am the life ; he who believes in me , though he die , yet shall he live , and who ever lives and believes in me shall never die .
21 He might have said for example : ‘ The Word shall never return void but its impact will be a whole lot greater if it 's presented well . ’
22 It is a kindness I shall never forget .
23 I shall never forget that moment .
24 Then there are problems of translation ; A distant relative 's long-distant and fairly Meaningless tribute , ‘ We sha n't forget old Vanya ’ , Gets translated into funeralese as ‘ We shall never forget you ’ , which in turn Gets translated by a deaf florist into ‘ We shall love you forever ’ .
25 He insisted that ‘ we shall never win the people by keeping aloof from them …
26 I shall never get used to the changing of the clocks .
27 Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it .
28 ‘ We are so far behind I fear we shall never catch up , ’ he says , gloomily .
29 Mr Kinnock said : ‘ The battle is not yet over , the battle for the survival of the National Health Service , for proper investment in children who go to local maintained schools , to protect learning and independence in the universities and broadcasting , to secure freedom of information and reform of our democracy , and ensure we shall never again get a government that will use unemployment and recession as its main economic weapon . ’
30 He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken .
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