Example sentences of "i have never be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been surrounded by so many nice things before , not even at the Lewises ' . |
| 2 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 3 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 4 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 5 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 6 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 7 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 8 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 9 | It was a marvellous victory even Parsons , who had stopped all his previous opponents in the first round , admitted : ‘ I 've never been hit like that in my life . ’ |
| 10 | I said slowly , ‘ It could be because I 've never been dated by anyone I liked enough . ’ |
| 11 | I 've never been treated like this before . ’ |
| 12 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 13 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know , I 've never been suspected of murder before . |
| 15 | ‘ Besides , I 've never been consumed with lust for the caress of a grey woollen glove . ’ |
| 16 | The second is : ‘ I 've never been fitted in my life . |
| 17 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 18 | I 've never been used to that . |
| 19 | But I 've never been talking to you before . |
| 20 | No , not at all , I 'm not nervous , no I 've never been bothered with things that go bang in the night . |
| 21 | I 've never been rogered like that before . |
| 22 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 23 | I do sometimes go down to 2½lb , but although I have never been broken on it I never feel as confident as I ought . |
| 24 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 25 | I have never been disturbed by the apparent anomaly that the death sentence remains in our law as the penalty for treason : I see no parallel or analogy between the punishment of crime within a society and the self-defence of a society against its enemies . |
| 26 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 27 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 28 | ‘ I have never been considered in any way ; it was always yourself . |
| 29 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 30 | David Profumo wrote in the Daily Telegraph : ‘ Heresy as it is in literary circles , I have to say I have never been taken with the work of the late Angela Carter . |