Example sentences of "never been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 2 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 3 | Never been much of a book fan either . |
| 4 | Edna had never been much of a letter writer , preferring to send illustrated cards with emotive printed messages at Christmas and on birthdays . |
| 5 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 6 | He 's never been much help to his father . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There 's never been much of a plan , so there 's no reason to cancel out any initial plans of getting degrees and going on and doing something else . ’ |
| 8 | There had never been much of a garden , only the rhododendrons flowering red and pink and lilac , where bees droned happily . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's never been much of a man for dancing , not unless he 's drunk and then he 'll dance with the best of them . ’ |
| 10 | He had never been much of a fellow for breasts . |
| 11 | It 's the blues that never been never been much of a problem really . |
| 12 | But there 's never been much interest around here . |
| 13 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've never been much of an exam passer . ’ |
| 15 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 16 | There 's never been much doubt about Kitson . |
| 17 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 18 | ‘ Nelson , I 've just never been much of a dancer . |
| 19 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 20 | ‘ Billy 's never been all that interested in women , Annie , ’ she replied . |
| 21 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 22 | And she had never been that . |
| 23 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 24 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 25 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 26 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 27 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 28 | There had never been such a literary success in England . |
| 29 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 30 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |