Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
2 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
3 | But as I say , I 've never seen anything , and I 've never been able to find anybody who can provide that answer for me . |
4 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
5 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
6 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
7 | The Vale of Blackmoor was her only world , and she had never been far outside the valley . |
8 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
9 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
10 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
11 | It was the nature of dogs to eat cats and he had never been able to see the sense of trying to stop them . |
12 | Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money . |
13 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
14 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
15 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
16 | No , I said , I 'm not , but I 've never been ashamed of er of er of my parents and my background . |
17 | I 've often felt desperate too , but I 've never been able to talk about it because people think you 're being superior : holier than human . |
18 | But I 've never been able to write except when I was stone cold sober . |
19 | I 've heard that there 's another door in the park somewhere , but I 've never been able to find it . |
20 | ‘ But I 've never been able to think straight where you 're concerned , ’ he said softly . |
21 | Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway . |
22 | I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star . |
23 | One globular cluster , NGC 5466 , is said to be visible , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope . |
24 | M67 is in the field with Alpha ( 4.2 ) ; it is said to be visible with the naked eye , but I have never been able to confirm this , though with binoculars it is very easy indeed . |
25 | It is rather faint ; I can just see it with × 12 and easily with × 20 , but I have never been able to detect it with × 7 . |
26 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
27 | The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty . |
28 | It is said to be visible with binoculars , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope . |
29 | In fact M42 is only the brightest part of a vast nebular cloud which covers most of Orion , but I have never been able to see the rest of it with binoculars . |
30 | The range is said to be from 3.2 to 4.2 and the period around 45 days , but I have never been able to make much periodicity out of it , and neither have I ever seen it brighter than magnitude 3.6 . |