Example sentences of "[vb past] never [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never been to the barn . |
| 2 | He 'd never been in the garden again , though Mr Field said he could . |
| 3 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 4 | " I 'd never been near the Chief Rabbit before . |
| 5 | The issue of retirement had never been on the agenda previously , quite simply because people died much younger in earlier generations . |
| 6 | It had never been on the agenda . |
| 7 | I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something . |
| 8 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 9 | Maggie had never been to the St Andrew 's Halls , and was looking forward to it . |
| 10 | I had never been to the Broads . |
| 11 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 12 | In addition , he had never been to the big house and had no idea where to go , or whom to see . |
| 13 | Jane had never been to the aerodrome before — not actually past the guardroom and through the gates — and she had n't known what to expect that night . |
| 14 | She had never been to the house on the bay at that end of the afternoon , and found Therese abstracted and busy . |
| 15 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 16 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 17 | I bought him in the summer as a very green five-year-old , who had never been off the farm where he was bred . |
| 18 | Until she was thirteen she had never been outside the Grange garden alone . |
| 19 | She was twenty-five and she had never been in the tube . |
| 20 | And she had never been in the London Underground . |
| 21 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |
| 22 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |
| 23 | Dr Laternser immediately rose to protest that the witness had never been in the German army and therefore could not properly be asked or answer any such questions . |
| 24 | He knew that Coy was an administrator , that he had never been in the field either as a soldier or as an agent . |
| 25 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 26 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
| 27 | He had never been inside the box , nor had he seen the Decontamination Centre that was alongside , nor the Liquid Waste plant . |