Example sentences of "[coord] he have never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 2 | It was the nature of dogs to eat cats and he had never been able to see the sense of trying to stop them . |
| 3 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 4 | His nanny had scolded him over and over , but he had never been able to stop . |
| 5 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |
| 6 | " Tricky Dick " Nixon was an astute party politician , but he had never been able to project an appealing public " image " . |
| 7 | ‘ Of diphtheria , but he 'd never been strong . |
| 8 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 9 | But he has never been busier and in the past year has taken on three full-time staff . |
| 10 | But he has never been fitter and , with sponsorship from Lunn Poly for the first time , is giving his best shot at winning for Britain . |
| 11 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |