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 . |