Example sentences of "never [been] in the [noun] [prep] " 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 | The ideal of an unrelated self is shown to be an ideal developed by people who have never been in the position of having primary responsibility for the care of children or the old . |
| 3 | Suspicious of session musicians , he has never been in the habit of sharing his thoughts about chord sequences or the like ; his co-artists have been expected to listen hard and play along if they can . |
| 4 | As I have never been in the habit of working at my easel every morning from 8 am , I only feel inclined to work when something stirs me in some way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | It has never been in the rain before and has not developed a habit of accepting the discomfort of being in the rain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | AS FAR AS Irish nationalists are concerned , the British security forces in Northern Ireland have never been in the running for prizes for popularity . |
| 10 | I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote . |