Example sentences of "never [be] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |
| 2 | This has never been up among the recommendations for this work , and even at mid-price it is n't competitive with those versions listed above . |
| 3 | ‘ Never been right since the bronchitis last winter . |
| 4 | He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed . |
| 5 | Remittance Man deserved this change of luck as he has never been out of the frame in his seven previous starts but had only managed one win . |
| 6 | Many of the villagers had never been out of the dale . |
| 7 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's never been out of the city in his life . |
| 9 | Mary Gates had never been out in the company of a man since the death of his Father . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's never been out in the boat . |
| 11 | The fish had never been anywhere near the Clyde . |
| 12 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |