Example sentences of "[pers pn] be never [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm never sure what to When in Rome do as the Romans do okay for goodness sakes . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm never sure you are a human being , ’ said Betty repressively . |
| 3 | When it did work , I was never sure what I 'd done right , and when it did n't , I was never sure what I had done wrong — it was very hit and miss . |
| 4 | When it did work , I was never sure what I 'd done right , and when it did n't , I was never sure what I had done wrong — it was very hit and miss . |
| 5 | ‘ Awaking after a short sleep , he said to his mother , ‘ I was never sure I should die before ; but now I am sure I shall die , and go to heaven . ’ , |
| 6 | I was never afraid he would hurt me , and calmly took the knife out of my mouth . |
| 7 | It 's very difficult to play continental teams because you 're never sure what tactics and style they 'll adopt but with England everyone knows . ’ |
| 8 | You 're never sure his car would stop , Grant and there was going to be somebody behind daddy coming up Alexander Street very , very fast and then jumped into daddy 's back ! |
| 9 | You 're never bored I know , but do you get lonely ? ’ |
| 10 | Afterwards she was never sure what she had noticed first : Teodor 's enormous size , loud voice , even louder laugh , or Sophie 's nearly equal bulk , plump , cushionlike . |
| 11 | She had , in her naïveté or her stupidity — she was never sure which — imagined herself standing at the elbow of a Valentino or an Armani , learning to drape soft wools , to design things that had classical beauty . |
| 12 | She would look at him sideways , smile at unexpected moments , and while she was never coarse there was the vaguest suggestion of the gentlest possible obscenity as she spoke of the bodies of animals . |
| 13 | We were never sure we 'd be alive from one day to the next . |
| 14 | ‘ He has all the great attributes of a Scotsman , and he 's never forsworn his native accent . |
| 15 | 'T IS never right him acting as if he owns the girleen . |
| 16 | It was never clear who was to blame for starting the niggles , but there could be no argument that , on the day , the Taiwanese were the better team . |
| 17 | Despite conflicting statements from Tehran and press conjecture centring on Libya , it was never clear who was responsible for laying them . |