Example sentences of "[vb past] never [been] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 3 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 4 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 5 | I do n't know if she 's gone alone or with some , or with a friend , but er she said she wanted to , she 'd never been to California and she wanted to go before she was too old and crotchety to get there because David 's he 's in no fit state to go anywhere any more . |
| 6 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 7 | Still , it sounded like a fascinating challenge , and she 'd never been to Sheffield before , so it would give her an opportunity to see another little bit of the world . |
| 8 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 9 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 10 | She had hoped to talk to him , to suggest that he ring Maureen , who knew quite well that her niece had never been to Venice before . |
| 11 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 12 | Susie had never been to church . |
| 13 | She had never been to Suffolk , but had chosen it because she had found out that property there was cheapest and the rates lowest , of all the counties within reach of London . |
| 14 | She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book . |
| 15 | Neither church nor hotel authorities could accommodate canines and Luke had never been to kennels . |
| 16 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 17 | Edouard had never been to north Africa ; he was unprepared for the beauty of Algiers itself , and the magnificence of the surrounding country , with its rugged sunburned hills , its narrow winding roads which would suddenly open up on views of a vivid blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 18 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 19 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 20 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 21 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 22 | She had never been to Spain before but she had imagined it . |
| 23 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 24 | Sorge had never been to Langley before . |
| 25 | She had never been to lunch or any other meal alone with Willi since that day , but she was wholeheartedly indebted to him for his kindness , his common sense , his consciousness of the world outside one 's own personal situation . |
| 26 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 27 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 28 | I had never been to Asia before and really did n't know what to expect . |
| 29 | He himself had never been to Holborn , Dinah reflected ; and knew why . |
| 30 | His memories of the period are a mixture of Glasgow patter-merchant and re-cycled Hollywood cool : he was a Blues Brother who had never been to Chicago . |