Example sentences of "i [verb] never been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins . |
| 2 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 3 | I had never been politically active before in-any organized way . |
| 4 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |
| 5 | I had never been so frightened in my whole life . |
| 6 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 7 | I 've never been particularly good at chatting up women although I 've always liked women and sex , so the idea of cutting out all the small talk seemed both convenient and appealing to me . |
| 8 | He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where . |
| 9 | ‘ I think so — as far as I can , bearing in mind that I 'm Jewish and that I 've never been remotely religious . |
| 10 | I 've never been as peaceful and happy as I am here . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have so , ’ Rosie assured her , ‘ and believe it or not , I 've never been as happy in my whole life . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm essentially a social historian , although I sometimes think that if I wanted to find the right adjective , and I 've never been too much worried about adjectives , I would say I 'm really a cultural historian . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never been too big in the courage department ’ , said Wallaby fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 14 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never been so uncomfortable in all my life . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been so tired in all my life , ’ sighs the whey-faced spinster , and Williams is wryly sympathetic to her plight : unlike Greta Garbo , who uttered that same line in Grand Hotel , she has no possibility of romantic regeneration . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw it in the paper , and I 've never been so pleased about anything in all my life . ’ |
| 18 | While I 'm not a rugby union man myself , I 've never been so pleased to see Will Carling and the boys get an award . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never been so humiliated . ’ |
| 20 | I 've never been so ashamed in my life . |
| 21 | I 've never been so ashamed in my life . |
| 22 | I 've never been so happy . |
| 23 | I 've never been so happy . |
| 24 | ‘ Things are really beginning to roll now , and I 've never been so happy . |
| 25 | I 've never been so popular . |
| 26 | She was leaning over talking to him and saying something sort of like I 've never been so embarrassed in my life ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never been so near to causing a dock strike , ’ says Chris , who adds : ‘ I could n't apologise quickly enough and I was forgiven . |
| 28 | Man , to this day I 've never been so sick . ’ |
| 29 | And awful , and I 've never been so confused in my whole life . ’ |
| 30 | I 've never been so frightened in my life . ’ |