Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] never be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Until she was thirteen she had never been outside the Grange garden alone . |
| 3 | It was possible she had never been in a tunnel before , except perhaps in a car going quickly through some underpass . |
| 4 | It was obvious she 'd never been before . |
| 5 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 6 | Until 1975 there had never been formal , regular board meetings , merely ad hoc occasions when , for example , they needed to fire someone . |
| 7 | After all I had never been here before , there was no means of knowing . |
| 8 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 9 | Wendy betrayed by Rhoda 's desire for Ken : betrayed by the author of her own being : no wonder she had faded out of the world so quietly and gently and quickly , as if understanding it were better she had never been born . |
| 10 | I am sure it had never been used before . |
| 11 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 12 | A former patient ( one who had never been regressed or even thought about the subject ) told me of a strange incident in her own family . |
| 13 | Edward lay in the bath as the water cooled around him — as usual it had never been adequately hot — and allowed physical discomfort to complement his state of mind . |