Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] never been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 2 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never been this way before . |
| 4 | But I 've never been this close before … ’ |
| 5 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 6 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 7 | ‘ You 've never been much of an exam passer . ’ |
| 8 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 9 | And she had never been that . |
| 10 | She had never been this angry in her life . |
| 11 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 12 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 13 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for South Ribble ( Mr. Atkins ) says that he will be among those abolished , but he has already abolished himself — there has never been such a secret and silent Minister for Sport . |
| 15 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 16 | Osnafeld is a British subject , a financier of sorts who has sailed very close to the wind on a number of occasions , but there has never been enough evidence to proceed against him . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 18 | There has never been any corroboration . |
| 19 | Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects . |
| 20 | There has never been any animosity between us , that 's total rubbish . |
| 21 | But whatever the papers think , and whatever the English management says , there has never been any trouble between us and the English players . |
| 22 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 23 | There has never been any question about that . |
| 24 | There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing . |
| 25 | I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario . |
| 26 | In America where the loose , cotton , mid-thigh-length male undergarment has consistently maintained its market share , there has never been any need to call these things anything but shorts . |
| 27 | There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out . |
| 28 | There has never been any trouble . |
| 29 | There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’ |
| 30 | There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles . |