Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] never be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for me has never been dull around you what more could I ask ? |
| 2 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 3 | I think perhaps the top clubs like I do n't I 've never been there . |
| 4 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 5 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 6 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I 'd never been born . |
| 8 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 9 | Well I 'd never been on stage in my life before and there I was , suddenly going to be in front of King George and Queen Mary . |
| 10 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd never been asked to do anything like it before and it is a little eccentric . |
| 12 | I 'd never been in a helicopter in my life ; you think , ‘ This is alright , ’ until you get in the bloody thing ! |
| 13 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 14 | Landing in Nigeria , en route to Sierra Leone , and struck , initially , by the intense heat and strange , over-powering odours , Neneh felt frightened and alienated : ‘ It was like a world I 'd never been in , that was looking at me as being different — but also part of . |
| 15 | I 'd never been surrounded by so many nice things before , not even at the Lewises ' . |
| 16 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome they 'll wish I 'd never been born , ’ said Masklin . |
| 17 | I 'd never been abroad before , so it was a wonderful gift . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " I 'd never been near the Chief Rabbit before . |
| 20 | I 'd never been in there before ; it was dark and stuffy and full of bloody , primitive colours . |
| 21 | I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins . |
| 22 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 23 | I wish I 'd never been born ! ’ |
| 24 | I 'd never been to New Earth before . |
| 25 | I just got that scared , because I 'd never been to an antenatal class , I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 26 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 27 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 28 | It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time . |
| 29 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 30 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |