Example sentences of "we [vb past] never been " in BNC.
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| 1 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 2 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
| 3 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 4 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 5 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 6 | We had never been able to afford to go on holidays — Dad had had to work all the time — so school holidays had been spent at home . |
| 7 | ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved . |
| 8 | None of us knew exactly where we were , so the captain decided to continue sailing eastwards , where we had never been before . |
| 9 | ‘ They 'd tell us stories about the Cuban Revolution and we 'd sit round getting drunk and nostalgic about something we had never been in . ’ |