Example sentences of "never [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted condescendingly in his diary that the wily Verdeţ was ‘ a most agreeable person who had never been outside a Communist country in his life … |
| 2 | Until she was thirteen she had never been outside the Grange garden alone . |
| 3 | In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe . |
| 4 | Well we 've never been along that , actually . |
| 5 | Now you know anything about drains , I 've never been down them , but if you kno , if you know anything about them , it goes down about three , four foot , five foot sometimes , and then , there is a , the pipe , the there 's , there 's a ledge there , and then going on down into the , in into the main drains . |
| 6 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 7 | My poetry had never been of so much practical use to me before . |
| 8 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |
| 9 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 11 | He covers it up well , I never been as things wrong |
| 12 | I 've never been as sea sick in all my life ! |
| 13 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 14 | Mr Parkinson told journalists later : ‘ It has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 15 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 16 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 17 | Londoner Ken Butler moved to the Fens 12 years ago , where space has never been at a premium , to carry on his profession of carpenter specialising in reproduction furniture . |
| 18 | U , of spectral type M , appears to be irregular , with a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 ; EU ranges from 6.0 to 6.9 , and is also of type M. It is said to be semi-regular , with a period of around 60 days , but I have never been at all confident about this . |
| 19 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 20 | The two countries , he said , had never been at war , although he acknowledged North Korea 's right to seek property damages linked to Japan 's colonial rule , provided that they were backed up by " objective evidence " . |
| 21 | I 've never been at it myself , like , but I mean but I mean the and all is , well there 's all the stuff on it anyway . |
| 22 | Lucy , I 'm in love with you like I 've never been with anyone before . |
| 23 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 24 | At the same time he knew that she would be aware that he had never been with a woman before . |
| 25 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 26 | Topaz had never been with a man before , but some instinct told her how to arouse Andrew . |
| 27 | I 've never been with a girl , I do n't know how to react around one . |
| 28 | I had never been with a killer before . |
| 29 | As he added : ‘ I had never been with anyone who was always so very , very funny . ’ |
| 30 | For some the relationship has broken down , others have never been with the father . |