Example sentences of "never [vb infin] [adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best .
2 ‘ He would take things on loan but he could never make up his mind .
3 Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here !
4 Morris could never make up his mind about Enoch .
5 This claim about human nature is then followed by the assertion that we could never gain adequate evidence for a holist theory , and so could never give up our view of individuals as basically autonomous actors :
6 He once swore , he said , that he would never give up his freedom and take on such a big post , but now here he is .
7 And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart .
8 He would never understand how his mother had managed to manoeuvre so many bulky items up the stepladder and through the hatch .
9 If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can .
10 We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity .
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