Example sentences of "[vb past] never be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years now he had shared the sheep herding with his Uncle George : the latter had never been particularly strong and now it was obvious that he was very ill . |
| 2 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 3 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 4 | Tess had never been so happy as she was now , and perhaps never would be so again . |
| 5 | I had never been politically active before in-any organized way . |
| 6 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 7 | It was not too hot to sleep : in Coffin 's life it had never been too hot or too cold or too anything to find oblivion . |
| 8 | Ruth had never been as late as this . |
| 9 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |