Example sentences of "never have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |
| 2 | Mr Lawson declared that the Conservatives ‘ never have been and never will be the party of devaluation . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm not and I never have been a hippy , I ca n't just ‘ hang out ’ any more . |
| 4 | But I never have been able to bring myself to watch the video . |
| 5 | ‘ We are not the party of unbridled , brutal capitalism , ’ Eden confidently declaimed at the 1947 conference , adding and never have been . ’ |
| 6 | I am not , and never have been a crofter . |
| 7 | You never have been before . |
| 8 | I could n't swim , never have been able to , and I did n't go out on a boat because along with the rest of the family I have always been afraid of water . |
| 9 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 10 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 11 | Irresponsibility , spontaneity and hedonism are the primary colours of any youth culture worth its sweat , but they are not world-changing legacies , and they never have been . |
| 12 | Irresponsibility , spontaneity and hedonism are the primary colours of any youth culture worth its sweat , but they are not world-changing legacies , and they never have been . |
| 13 | We never have been . |
| 14 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 15 | The version by Dame Gwyneth made last year in Japan should , frankly , never have been issued . |
| 16 | That 's a problem for the Continent , though — there never have been any European mink in the British Isles . |
| 17 | where they never have been sent before |
| 18 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 19 | And that 's why I think erm the West is making an enormous mistake in thinking that eastern European countries can suddenly become cos they never have been and I ca n't see any democratic now . |
| 20 | To both scientists and their public , scientific thought is male thought , in ways that painting and writing-also performed largely by men — never have been . |
| 21 | I 'm not beautiful and I never have been . |
| 22 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 23 | I think you need reminding that I am not your property ; never have been and never shall be ; and that you have no right at all to touch me if I do n't wish it , and none whatsoever to hurt me . |
| 24 | Never have been . |
| 25 | Ethologists never have been able to make up their minds about what they mean by communication and signalling . |
| 26 | ‘ You never have been . ’ |
| 27 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 28 | I am not in love with Nicole and I never have been . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am not in love with Florian and I never have been . ’ |