Example sentences of "never have " in BNC.
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| 1 | You prick , he said , I should never have let you take them up . |
| 2 | I should never have trusted you with it , he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , we 'd never have called France ‘ gallant ’ , I can tell you . |
| 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 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 6 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 7 | He took it all for granted , and would never have a clue just how blessed he was . |
| 8 | ‘ He should never have gone . ’ |
| 9 | One could never have guessed from his enquiries that the matter was somewhat uncongenial to him . |
| 10 | It is difficult to react adequately to George Woodcock 's silly comment that in Leonard 's first two books of poetry ‘ the thirties urge to relate the imagery of poetry to the world we live in , as the world we dream , might never have existed . ’ |
| 11 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll never have Marmite over there . |
| 13 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |
| 14 | Raskolnikov could never have said that — which introduces the deeper issues involved in the switch from first-person to a nominal thirdperson narrative . |
| 15 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 16 | Svidrigailov would never have said that ; he would have gone on making jokes about America . |
| 17 | He would never have had it so . |
| 18 | Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left . |
| 19 | This is what Pound could never have said . |
| 20 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 21 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 22 | Other Hong Kong businessmen may never have had quite the high-level political contacts of Mr Wu , but they too have cause for concern . |
| 23 | Without a student grant I would never have got there . |
| 24 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 25 | She stipulated that it must never have been involved in an accident . |
| 26 | They may never have heard one of her records , but when Joe Longthorne , or any of those impressionists who have made a career perfecting the quiver of her lip , does his Shirley Bassey everyone knows who he means . |
| 27 | As a manager Cruyff demands something he would never have accepted as a player . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The draftsman could never have intended to permit a doctor to lawfully sub-contract all his work . |
| 29 | Bankside Power Station should never have been built . |
| 30 | Audiences yearn to groan under the yoke of suffering they may never have experienced . |