Example sentences of "i had never been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 2 | I had never been to the Broads . |
| 3 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 4 | I had never been to Asia before and really did n't know what to expect . |
| 5 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 6 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 7 | I had never been with a killer before . |
| 8 | As he added : ‘ I had never been with anyone who was always so very , very funny . ’ |
| 9 | I had never been on a glacier before . |
| 10 | I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something . |
| 11 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 12 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 13 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 14 | I had never been in one before . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 17 | 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 . |