Example sentences of "[vb past] never been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 2 | And she had never been that . |
| 3 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 4 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 5 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 6 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 7 | There had never been such a literary success in England . |
| 8 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 9 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 10 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 11 | Edna had never been much of a letter writer , preferring to send illustrated cards with emotive printed messages at Christmas and on birthdays . |
| 12 | There had never been much of a garden , only the rhododendrons flowering red and pink and lilac , where bees droned happily . |
| 13 | He had never been much of a fellow for breasts . |
| 14 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |
| 15 | He had never been this way before . |
| 16 | She had never been this angry in her life . |
| 17 | They had never been this alone and this close together , and there was just no way not to be intensely aware of him . |
| 18 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 19 | There had never been enough money to dress the child properly and even if there had been they did n't have the style or the know-how . |
| 20 | For although there was work here , there had never been enough to supply the desperate horde which had applied for it , choking this ancient heart of the town to death with its demands for air and space and water , overwhelming its sanity resources , clogging its sewage channels , fouling its canal , draining its reservoirs . |
| 21 | Because there had never been enough of anything to go around , and never would be . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 24 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 26 | The job provided the Halden family with a home and enough money to live fairly comfortably , but with four sons and five daughters to bring up there had never been any to spare . |
| 27 | There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house . |
| 28 | There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else . |
| 29 | With Chantal there had never been any need for pretence . |
| 30 | There had never been any doubt in my own mind . |