Example sentences of "which [pron] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . |
| 4 | This was typical of his kindness , which I shall never forget . |
| 5 | Yeah I 've got another trip which I saw on telly , again which I shall never do I think , er which sounded pretty good , you flew , flew to er |
| 6 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 7 | During the process , however , I have learnt so much about myself which I would never have known otherwise . |
| 8 | ‘ On my tour I 'm going to sing My Funny Valentine and Some Enchanted Evening — songs which I would never have tackled before . |
| 9 | A home , she thought in sudden pain , which I 'll never share with him now . |
| 10 | And erm which I 'll never look at again at all . |
| 11 | Like with irony , remember the first week ? , which I 'll never forget it , tried |
| 12 | I 'd slotted in , by mistake , a tape on which I 'd recorded some sixties pop music for a party , and which I 'd never run back . |
| 13 | which I 'd never have thought . |
| 14 | Do you think that at a time like this I am afraid of words ? … if he dies tonight there will always be a gulf at my side , a gulf into which I must never fall ’ ( p. 87 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 16 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 17 | For reasons which I could never grasp , some restaurants seemed in a position to provide much greater variety than others , and my wife and I found one such place in the Hanover Square area , where I worked . |
| 18 | She went on a school trip to a museum and we gave her our little camera which I could never use . |
| 19 | It is a truth which I can never now forget as I go about a world in which human beings apparently have themselves under control . |
| 20 | You want too much wealth which I can never possess . |
| 21 | Then one year something happened which I can never forget . |
| 22 | Sadly , there is a lot about proust 's mission which I will never be able to believe in . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | There are many other products and services available from your bank , some of which you might never need , but some of which you probably will . |
| 25 | Brim 's translation ‘ You will be smitten with the Egyptian dermatitis , characterized by swellings , dry crusts , and ulcers , from which you will never be healed , and the Lord shall smite you in the knees , and in the legs , with a sore botch that can not be healed from the sole of thy foot to the top of thy head ’ not only gives a description that would do very well for syphilis but also pre-empts the habit of the fifteenth-century Europeans of ascribing the disease to the enemy . |
| 26 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 27 | In particular , ‘ Britain was bounced into surrenders of sovereignty which she would never have accepted if they had been presented as abstract ideas ’ . |
| 28 | Ellen planned to return to her tiny apartment in the town where she kept her precious books and where , on an old manual typewriter , she wrote what she called her ‘ five-finger exercises ’ , which she would never let anyone read . |
| 29 | Laura had many principles over which she would never compromise , one of which was the importance of giving each guest or employee a room of his or her own ; even two women would never be expected to share . |
| 30 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |