Example sentences of "[vb past] never be in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd never been in love in my life till you came along . ’
2 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 .
3 ‘ A Bit of a Smash in Madras ’ , told in the words of an English employee of a company in the east , had all the best qualities of his prose : pace , realism ( Connolly was amazed to learn that he had never been in India ) , exact rendering of the spoken word .
4 The Residency itself would be lost : the Collector had never been in doubt about that .
5 What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ .
6 Chris though , according to Isabelle , insisted that Jayne had never been in love with him .
7 By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied .
8 It was now obvious that Amelia had never been in charge .
9 He had never been in trouble before and was frightened and bewildered at his own behaviour .
10 This boy had never been in trouble with the law in his life .
11 He came from a good , supportive family and had never been in trouble before .
12 Edgar Prais , prosecuting , said the mother was a single parent and had never been in trouble before .
13 And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner .
14 For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course
15 Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around .
16 She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital .
17 On admission Julie was experiencing lower abdominal pain , feeling nauseated , and worried about the prospect of an operation as she had never been in hospital before and was not often ill .
18 He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently .
19 Dot knew that Mrs Parvis could n't care less what Mr Brown thought because Mr Brown did n't count for anything , because poor Mr Brown had never been in uniform .
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