Example sentences of "he have never been [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |
| 2 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 3 | For he has never been able to sleep much and talks with me late into the night . |
| 4 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 5 | He says he has never been able to get the image out of his mind . |
| 6 | Damn it , he had n't meant to betray that he 'd never been able to forget that afternoon , and the sweet innocence that had touched something very deep within him . |
| 7 | He had never been able to take in the fact that she was a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 8 | His nanny had scolded him over and over , but he had never been able to stop . |
| 9 | He had never been able to hit the animal but he knew how to throw a punch , and the Punk was n't such a good mover as Cobber . |
| 10 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had never been able to deal with the outside . |
| 13 | Moodie had succeeded over Ulster 's short circuits at Kirkistown and Bishopscourt but , despite four years of tryi West , he had never been able to crack what is arguably Ulster 's toughest race . |
| 14 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 15 | He had never been able to grasp it himself , never been able to assemble the jigsaw pieces of his identity into a clear recognisable picture . |
| 16 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 17 | For him the girl in the picture ‘ was made to seem perfectly in context as he had never been able to see people before ’ . |
| 18 | It was the nature of dogs to eat cats and he had never been able to see the sense of trying to stop them . |
| 19 | Perpetually subdued by the rigours of behaviour , and almost unable to express himself outside the vernaculars of Hunting , Racing , Shooting , Fishing and Cricket , he had never been able to make his case against Nico : " Awful , awful " was the best he could do . |
| 20 | His war record and the fact that he had never been able to catch him redhanded whilst poaching appealed to his old world code of honour . |
| 21 | ‘ He had never been able to bring himself to talk about it before , ’ he said . |
| 22 | " Tricky Dick " Nixon was an astute party politician , but he had never been able to project an appealing public " image " . |
| 23 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |
| 24 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 25 | And one of his main traits is that he 's never been slow to admit he 's made a mistake in the transfer market . |
| 26 | well it cost them a hundred thousand to do it , but , I mean he 's never been able to afford the |
| 27 | He 's never been afraid to show his vulnerability and songs like ‘ In Windows All ’ , a great , sweeping ballad , make a positive virtue of it . |