Example sentences of "that i [verb] never [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 2 | ‘ I think so — as far as I can , bearing in mind that I 'm Jewish and that I 've never been remotely religious . |
| 3 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 4 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 6 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 7 | I 've realized that I 've never been out of love . |
| 8 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 9 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 10 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 13 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 14 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 15 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 16 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 17 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 18 | Gentlemen , not only had our trade been inundated with boys , but fortunately or unfortunately , we have had another element introduced , and you know that I have never been a person who ignored the company of the opposite sex . |
| 19 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 20 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 21 | This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren . |