Example sentences of "[vb past] never [been] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 2 | He 'd never been in the garden again , though Mr Field said he could . |
| 3 | And she had never been in the London Underground . |
| 4 | He knew that Coy was an administrator , that he had never been in the field either as a soldier or as an agent . |
| 5 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 6 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
| 7 | She was twenty-five and she had never been in the tube . |
| 8 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |
| 9 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |