Example sentences of "who had never been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought him in the summer as a very green five-year-old , who had never been off the farm where he was bred . |
| 2 | Some were novices who had never been on jungle training . |
| 3 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 4 | His memories of the period are a mixture of Glasgow patter-merchant and re-cycled Hollywood cool : he was a Blues Brother who had never been to Chicago . |
| 5 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 6 | He noted condescendingly in his diary that the wily Verdeţ was ‘ a most agreeable person who had never been outside a Communist country in his life … |
| 7 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 8 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 9 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 10 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |