Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] never be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I went up to my bedchamber and prayed , as I have not prayed — from desolation — since I prayed to leave Mrs Teape 's house and thought I should never be answered .
2 I 'll never be grown up if I keep forgetting things .
3 Victorine cried out as soon as she saw them : that wretched child , I knew it would be hopeless letting her help , it 's too much , I 'll never be done in time .
4 I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then .
5 I 'm sure I 'll never be allowed back into Russia — not that I 'd ever want to go back .
6 Almost dispassionately she thought : I 'll never be picked up .
7 I 'll never be considered a Southerner .
8 I could never be vexed with you . ’
9 He said I 'd never be rid of you if I did . "
10 On the other hand , the inspector 's belief that I would never be punished proved only too true when I returned to London and the inquest was held .
11 I regularly get total signal failure and if I followed some of the compass courses displayed I would never be heard of again .
12 I shall never die and I shall never be released , and henceforth I shall wander alone in the eternal light …
13 It 's the same common fear that I will fall apart , physically and emotionally , that I will be reduced to a pile of tattered pulp , that I will never be loved by anyone , that I will fail , like … like — ’
14 Wherever , whatever I am , I can never be thrown away .
15 The present system of allocations , in which some stately committee offers the franchise to the most persuasive ( or plausible ) claimant on the basis of pledges which may never be fulfilled , is , all agree , very near indefensible .
16 Later , he would spend tens of millions of dollars , the true extent of which may never be known , to support the ultra-orthodox parties of Israel — enough to influence the country 's politics .
17 In letters , prescriptions , shopping lists , school essays , the reader normally pushes through a once-for-all interpretation of a text which may never be read again .
18 Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence .
19 Further discussions with instructors also confirmed that videos were regarded as a training aid of great potential which should never be overlooked .
20 Strong words which no one would contradict with confidence , even if despair was regarded as an emotion which should never be admitted .
21 There were two more in the series which could never be made .
22 Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods .
23 She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated .
24 This is a naive notion which could never be realised , because of inherent variation as in ( 2 ) .
25 Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted .
26 So were the shapeless spaces between the buildings , which could never be called streets .
27 But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all .
28 By contrast , the Soviet Union had , of course , always co-existed with a climate which could never be taken for granted .
29 That was something which could never be established after this lapse of time .
30 It is a tall order for someone so new to the professional ranks , but one which could never be construed as being beyond a competitor who , as an amateur , tied for second place behind Greg Norman in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale at the start of this season and who also finished in the top 10 in the English Open at The Belfry .
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