Example sentences of "[pron] 've never been " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rosemary , at forty , told me : I 've never been a child |
| 32 | ‘ I 've never been a child , ’ she told me . |
| 33 | ‘ I 've never been more depressed than the time I was sent off against Hibs . |
| 34 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 35 | Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | I 've never been one to rustle up some loaves-and-fishes |
| 38 | I 've never been a big knitter . |
| 39 | No , not at all , I 'm not nervous , no I 've never been bothered with things that go bang in the night . |
| 40 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 41 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 42 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ I 've never been so humiliated . ’ |
| 44 | I 've never been very sure if the eight records are meant to be eight long-playing records or not . |
| 45 | A refreshing interlude came by way of sorbet , something I 've never been a lover of , but this was quite , quite different . |
| 46 | I must admit , I 've never been tempted . |
| 47 | ‘ But I 've never been to the Lodge . |
| 48 | Take me somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 49 | I 've never been quite sure how external canister filters should be correctly packed and properly maintained . |
| 50 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 51 | I 've never been a fan of compressors for guitars , but in this case it makes quite a lot of difference when it comes to creating and controlling a guitar sound . |
| 52 | ‘ I 've never been in a helicopter , and now I probably never will . |
| 53 | Bryan agrees : ‘ I 've never been into that sort of high speed guitar playing , and if I was it would have to be something very melodic . |
| 54 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 55 | I 've never been very good at rejecting people , so I told him I was frigid . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've never been so exhausted in my life . |
| 57 | ‘ 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've never been too big in the courage department ’ , said Wallaby fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 59 | The second is : ‘ I 've never been fitted in my life . |
| 60 | I 've never been used to that . |