Example sentences of "never [be] [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 2 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
| 3 | Never been late in my life . |
| 4 | But then , she thought acidly , he had probably never been young in his life ; some people were like that . |
| 5 | She had never been involved in his business and as it grew , saw considerably less of her husband . |
| 6 | I 've never been jealous in my life , not until I met you . |
| 7 | She could hardly have been much of a friend of Liza because , although her daughter had never been forthcoming about her time in the ATS , she had certainly never mentioned an Eleanor Fuller . |
| 8 | One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes . |
| 9 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 10 | Some of the unemployed are young , some are old and many have never been unemployed in their life . |
| 11 | She had never been ashamed of her body before — why should she let him make her feel this way ? |
| 12 | ‘ You 've never been terrified in your life ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |
| 14 | Such awareness does not govern everything a Home Secretary does or says in public , but it will never be far from his thoughts . |
| 15 | This means you 'll never be far from your money — even on campus . |
| 16 | She would have liked to dissolve into him and become part of him , so that she could never be subject to his indifference , or even be looked at by him in any objective way . |
| 17 | When , as I expect , Neil Kinnock enters 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister after Thursday , is it too much to expect that the knockers and detractors who said that Labour could never be electable under his leadership will eat their words ? |
| 18 | That each morning , like a beautiful woman , it will reveal some hidden facet to me so that I will never be bored with its presence . ’ |
| 19 | Never be satisfied with your performance in these sessions until the results start showing in terms of better performance from those you manage . |