Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
| 2 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
| 3 | But as I say , I 've never seen anything , and I 've never been able to find anybody who can provide that answer for me . |
| 4 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 5 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 6 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
| 7 | And she had never been that . |
| 8 | The Vale of Blackmoor was her only world , and she had never been far outside the valley . |
| 9 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 10 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 11 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |
| 12 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
| 13 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 14 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 15 | It was the nature of dogs to eat cats and he had never been able to see the sense of trying to stop them . |
| 16 | Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money . |
| 17 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 18 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |