Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] never been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins . |
| 2 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 3 | I had never been politically active before in-any organized way . |
| 4 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |
| 5 | I had never been so frightened in my whole life . |
| 6 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 7 | but I , I thought she 'd never been very open with it |
| 8 | She 'd never been very interested in the Council anyway . |
| 9 | The truth was she 'd never been more curious about anyone in her whole life , but there was no way she 'd give him the satisfaction of knowing that . |
| 10 | She had never been particularly enthusiastic about her job as interior designer . |
| 11 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 12 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 13 | Bathsheba was watching his expression closely , and she had never been more miserable . |
| 14 | In the days that followed , each one taking the ship closer to home , Lindsey knew she had never been more glad of the solid routine which , if it did n't keep her mind fully occupied , at least kept her hands busy . |
| 15 | She had never been very obedient in other areas of her life but in the tube she was a child again , learning , wary , and without that presence which had always been there in her childhood . |
| 16 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 17 | She had never been less communicative either in speech or in manner and it was remarked on by Mrs Browning with curiosity . |
| 18 | She thought she had never been so tired . |
| 19 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 20 | The other women had daughters to help them , she had never been so lucky . |
| 21 | Fabia queried in surprise , certain that she had never been so rude . |
| 22 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 23 | She had never been so scared in all her life . |
| 24 | She had never been so glad to see her mother that morning . |
| 25 | She knew from his voice that he had seen the news too , and she had never been so glad to hear a friendly voice . |
| 26 | Yet , while she enjoyed it all , liked Pat , felt she had never been so happy , she was thinking : Yes , but this is how people behave when they have decided to go away : in a sense she has already left . |
| 27 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 28 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 29 | There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set . |
| 30 | There had never been too much money , but never less than enough . |