Example sentences of "[subord] i had never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was very young I had frequent dreams of Israel and the River Jordan , although I had never been there , and the first word I spoke was ‘ Abba ’ — the Jewish word for father . |
| 2 | I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away . |
| 3 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
| 4 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 5 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 6 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 7 | I was a bit lost because I had never been anywhere before , but I was met in a pony and trap and taken to my new employer . |
| 8 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 9 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 10 | As though I had never been . |
| 11 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |