Example sentences of "never been [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've never been one for doctors , and hospitals were for visiting other people , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 3 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
| 4 | But Mike , of Bamford , Derbys — a Blades fan for 50 years — said : ‘ I 've never been one for holidays . |
| 5 | I 've never been one for crediting animals with human feelings , but the expression on that dog 's face definitely said " Stop laughing and get me out of here " . |
| 6 | She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it . |
| 7 | I 've never been one for making friends , you know that . |
| 8 | I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 've never been one for tea or coffee after seven o'clock . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before . |
| 12 | Oh she 's always been a good daughter up till now , I 'll grant her that , I 've never been one to just blame the girl , Douglas , I blame the boy too . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's never been anyone like your dad , Ruthie , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It did not strike her , for she was a modest and , on the whole , an outward-looking woman , that she had never been anything but kind to Alida Thorne . |
| 15 | Why had she married a dirty type like Boyd , to spawn a boy like Hank , who had never been anything but a damned nuisance to her ? |
| 16 | Since then , his father had told both Thorkel and Otkel to take his son Paul with them whenever there was prospect of fighting , but there had never been anything worth speaking of , except an Icelandic trader who had n't paid his toll and had to be stopped in the Firth , or , once , a small flotilla of ships from Ireland that had fled when they saw them . |
| 17 | He accepted that there had never been anything of a romantic or sexual nature between her and Florian . |
| 18 | ‘ You did n't ask , you did n't want to be told until Florian convinced you that there 'd never been anything between us . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's never been anything between me and Radcliffe , ’ she said huskily . |
| 20 | They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free . |
| 21 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 22 | There has never been anything like it at Cheltenham . |