Example sentences of "never be [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the verdict she still insisted : ‘ I have never been improperly involved with him . ’ |
| 2 | He has visited Britain several times but he has never been even close to being caught and I am pleased about that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lydia had never been particularly fond of Betty , but during dinner she had begun to hate her . |
| 5 | But in fact he had never been particularly sympathetic towards Clara , and paid but a feeble and superficial attention to her progress . |
| 6 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 7 | But in practice structuralist poetics have never been particularly interested in establishing the specificity of literature . |
| 8 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 9 | According to Moore , banks have never been particularly reluctant to back high technology ventures . |
| 10 | She had never been particularly enthusiastic about her job as interior designer . |
| 11 | Danu had never been that easy for him , even though the people had taken to the saints and images of Catholicism with the usual zeal of the pagan at heart . |
| 12 | Werewolf stayed upright , but then he 'd never been as close to him as I had . |
| 13 | ‘ I have so , ’ Rosie assured her , ‘ and believe it or not , I 've never been as happy in my whole life . ’ |
| 14 | I 've actually never been as fit in my life before , I 've been erm you know , down the gym training erm every day and erm really sort of putting some hard work in and erm you know , I 'm in great shape . |
| 15 | She has never been really well since then . |
| 16 | As a human food fish , saithe has never been really popular in Britain and therefore its market value has been low . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw it in the paper , and I 've never been so pleased about anything in all my life . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have never been so close to resigning from the force , ’ Morton said slowly . |
| 19 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 20 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 21 | Getting laid has never been so cheap in all history . |
| 22 | I was nervous in the dressing room but once on the pitch and with the thrill of being presented to the Princess Royal it felt just great and I have never been so proud in my life , especially when I saw my sister , Kirsty , up in the stand . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never been so uncomfortable in all my life . |
| 24 | ‘ We have recently moved to this village and I have never been so bored in all my life . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Public tastes and current architecture have never been so much at odds . |
| 27 | For all that England are the only European nation not to concede a goal in the qualifying tournament , it is no exaggeration to suggest they have never been so ill-equipped for the persistent rigours of a World Cup . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never been so near to causing a dock strike , ’ says Chris , who adds : ‘ I could n't apologise quickly enough and I was forgiven . |
| 29 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 30 | Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands . |