Example sentences of "never been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the schools the needs for AIDS education has never been greater . |
| 2 | The need for a national and international AIDS charity has never been greater . |
| 3 | Effective prevention has never been more urgently needed , especially in schools . |
| 4 | Bernini is evidently attempting to render something quite transcendental and something which had never been attempted by a sculptor before that date . |
| 5 | The tragedies of miscegenation have never been simple — ever since Othello did what he had to do to Desdemona . |
| 6 | They have also never been perceived by the state as a threat , perhaps because of the revolutionary pedigree of some of their élite . |
| 7 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |
| 8 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 9 | I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote . |
| 10 | My feet have never been the same since , he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 14 | As though I had never been . |
| 15 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been inside the local police station , ’ said Ethel . |
| 17 | Logic had never been Wendy 's strong suit . |
| 18 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 19 | This undemanding life-cycle had never been disrupted and I read the new lecture list partly just out of habit and partly for the simple pleasure of seeing my name in print . |
| 20 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 21 | Why have you never been able to accept that ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've never been married then ? ’ |
| 23 | The subject of a flat in Harwich had of course never been raised again . |
| 24 | I 'd never been to her place before . |
| 25 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 26 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never been able to , ’ said Lucy . |
| 28 | Jay had never been promiscuous after the fuck'em and leave 'em college years , and now , after five years of no sex except occasional pleasant nights with ex-lovers , her newly spare body thrilled with anticipation . |
| 29 | And at sixteen she wished she had never been born . |
| 30 | Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’ |