Example sentences of "[pron] had never be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me . |
| 2 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 3 | As though I had never been . |
| 4 | I had never been a prime minister before . |
| 5 | I had never been on a glacier before . |
| 6 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 7 | After all I had never been here before , there was no means of knowing . |
| 8 | I had never been to the Broads . |
| 9 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When I was very young I had frequent dreams of Israel and the River Jordan , although I had never been there , and the first word I spoke was ‘ Abba ’ — the Jewish word for father . |
| 11 | I had never been fitter or stronger . |
| 12 | I had never been awake in it as early as that before . |
| 13 | I had never been able to understand them then , but I sympathized with them now . |
| 14 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
| 15 | I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away . |
| 16 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 17 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 18 | We had stopped there once or twice , but as yet I had never been inside . |
| 19 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 20 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 21 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 22 | I had never been politically active before in-any organized way . |
| 23 | I had never been to Asia before and really did n't know what to expect . |
| 24 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 25 | I had never been told to run on duty . |
| 26 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 27 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 28 | I had never been able to persuade her to accept any money for her kindness and tried to reciprocate by doing any small repairs she needed to her flat , and by supplying occasional tickets for the theatre , for the tennis at Wimbledon , and for the races at Epsom . |
| 29 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 30 | I had never been happier . |