Example sentences of "but [pers pn] 've never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 2 | No , I said , I 'm not , but I 've never been ashamed of er of er of my parents and my background . |
| 3 | I 've often felt desperate too , but I 've never been able to talk about it because people think you 're being superior : holier than human . |
| 4 | But I 've never been able to write except when I was stone cold sober . |
| 5 | I 've heard that there 's another door in the park somewhere , but I 've never been able to find it . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've never been able to think straight where you 're concerned , ’ he said softly . |
| 7 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |