Example sentences of "'d never be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'd never been on stage in my life before and there I was , suddenly going to be in front of King George and Queen Mary . |
| 2 | We went to the airport , I 'd never been on a plane before , we were going to America — we got to the airport and — nothing . |
| 3 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 4 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 5 | Cos I had it for a month , cos I did n't know whether I was gon na like it , I 'd never been on one before and er I 'd heard Judith say that you could feel claustrophobic , you know , with it over you |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 8 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 9 | I 'd never been to New Earth before . |
| 10 | I just got that scared , because I 'd never been to an antenatal class , I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 11 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 12 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 13 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 15 | Still , it sounded like a fascinating challenge , and she 'd never been to Sheffield before , so it would give her an opportunity to see another little bit of the world . |
| 16 | He 'd never been to the barn . |
| 17 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 18 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 19 | I do n't know if she 's gone alone or with some , or with a friend , but er she said she wanted to , she 'd never been to California and she wanted to go before she was too old and crotchety to get there because David 's he 's in no fit state to go anywhere any more . |
| 20 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 21 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 22 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 23 | He 'd never been in the garden again , though Mr Field said he could . |
| 24 | She 'd never been in a hackney cab . |
| 25 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 26 | I 'd never been in a helicopter in my life ; you think , ‘ This is alright , ’ until you get in the bloody thing ! |
| 27 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 28 | I 'd never been in there before ; it was dark and stuffy and full of bloody , primitive colours . |
| 29 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 30 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |