Example sentences of "never [been] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , city dwellers have never been long on modesty . |
| 2 | It may be the last word in consumer issues but it has never been available on news stands . |
| 3 | Despite her love of the dramatic , Luce had never been over-keen on surprises . |
| 4 | Uncle Bob said he could remember , from when they were boys , Tom had never been keen on cats . |
| 5 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 6 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 7 | Most children who suffer from day wetting have primary enuresis , that is they have never been dry by day . |
| 8 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 9 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 10 | Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters . |
| 11 | Erm er and it 's the way that we do it that 's made it made it very comfortable to go into something , like most of the people that come to see us and work with us , they 've never sold never been involved in advertising let alone sold it because erm |
| 12 | Erm I have to say that most of the people that come to us have never been involved in advertising . |
| 13 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
| 14 | He had never been short of girl-friends , not at university anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ I ai n't never been short of milk yet . ’ |
| 16 | First-rate opera has never been free from controversy ; but managing London 's premier opera house in the 17605 was a particularly hazardous occupation , especially as there was no formal state subsidy and the impresario was personally responsible for the finances . |
| 17 | Since then , I have never been free from grief . ’ |
| 18 | But immediately , the burden of the territorial and other material possessions of his church weighed upon him in a way that had never been evident at Bec under the relaxed rule of Duke Robert of Normandy . |
| 19 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 20 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 21 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 22 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 23 | To which Robert replied that he had never been interested in photography . |
| 24 | As I have never been interested in argument , he must often have felt frustrated by my silences , my refusal to rise to the bait . |
| 25 | Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting . |
| 26 | ‘ Israel , ’ says one senior official , ‘ has never been interested in emigration as such , but in aliya — in having as many Jews as possible come to Israel . ’ |
| 27 | Edward 's downfall had been sudden and complete ; yet its instigators , the queen and Mortimer , had never been popular in England and had enjoyed little if any overt support there until they landed in September 1326 . |
| 28 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 29 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 30 | Traditional leadership of the kind provided by the landed classes had never been significant in antislavery . |