Example sentences of "i 've never been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 2 | I , no , I 've never been round much . |
| 3 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 4 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 5 | I 've never been up here before . |
| 6 | I 've never been particularly good at chatting up women although I 've always liked women and sex , so the idea of cutting out all the small talk seemed both convenient and appealing to me . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never been here at night . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know it 's a long way , ’ she is saying , ‘ I 've never been here myself , before today . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never been here before in my life , ’ she denied flatly . |
| 10 | He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where . |
| 11 | Do you know , I 've never been inside before , simply splendid to be near the sea — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think so — as far as I can , bearing in mind that I 'm Jewish and that I 've never been remotely religious . |
| 13 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 14 | Take me somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 15 | ‘ I have so , ’ Rosie assured her , ‘ and believe it or not , I 've never been as happy in my whole life . ’ |
| 16 | I 've never been as peaceful and happy as I am here . ’ |
| 17 | I 've never been in I were |
| 18 | I 've never been in on a Friday afternoon because erm |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never been too big in the courage department ’ , said Wallaby fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 20 | I 'm essentially a social historian , although I sometimes think that if I wanted to find the right adjective , and I 've never been too much worried about adjectives , I would say I 'm really a cultural historian . |
| 21 | I 've never been so frightened in my life . ’ |
| 22 | I 've never been so happy . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never been so uncomfortable in all my life . |
| 24 | I 've never been so ashamed in my life . |
| 25 | I 've never been so controlled , to the point of them actually grabbing my hand , moving the way I was pointing the camera . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never been so humiliated . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never been so exhausted in my life . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never been so tired in all my life , ’ sighs the whey-faced spinster , and Williams is wryly sympathetic to her plight : unlike Greta Garbo , who uttered that same line in Grand Hotel , she has no possibility of romantic regeneration . |
| 29 | Man , to this day I 've never been so sick . ’ |
| 30 | I 've never been so ashamed in my life . |