Example sentences of "never been [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He noted condescendingly in his diary that the wily Verdeţ was ‘ a most agreeable person who had never been outside a Communist country in his life …
2 ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’
3 You 've never been on a big boat ?
4 I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something .
5 I 've never been on the permanent staff . ’
6 ‘ I was with British Steel before coming here and had never been to a live theatre show before except the pantomime as a kid .
7 Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night
8 He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! '
9 He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all .
10 ' Well , none of it is true — I 've never been to the Royal College of Art — or any college of art for that matter .
11 Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air .
12 In addition , he had never been to the big house and had no idea where to go , or whom to see .
13 I just got that scared , because I 'd never been to an antenatal class , I did n't know what was going to happen .
14 I only ask this question because devotees of this composer have probably never been in a better position to acquire a good cross-section of his output on disc .
15 The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy .
16 I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal .
17 Mr Gavron believes that the company has never been in a stronger position .
18 He has never been in a stronger position since he entered Parliament in 1984 — and he is not 40 until May .
19 And , and the people sitting in Shanghai , who have never been in the rural areas which is
20 Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich .
21 We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . "
22 With Caroline , Giles and Georgiana around , I 've never been in the slightest danger of getting the so-called high profile of my job out of perspective .
23 Dr Laternser immediately rose to protest that the witness had never been in the German army and therefore could not properly be asked or answer any such questions .
24 ‘ I 've never been inside the local police station , ’ said Ethel .
25 " I 'd never been near the Chief Rabbit before .
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