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Example sentences of "[pron] have never been [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Yeah I have never been involved in a one world week event at St Michael 's .
2	I have never been convinced that HMI realise the extreme difficulties of managing interdisciplinary work in sustained ways in primary classes .
3	As for helmets , I have never been convinced that they have much to offer , and my views are broadly confirmed by recent reviews in the CTC magazine and the journal ‘ New Cyclist ’ ( neither organisation being anti-helmet ; the reviews are widely based and fair ) .
4	That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them .
5	I have never been confident that I can split them with the naked eye , but 7 × 50 binoculars make it easy enough .
6	I have never been clearer in my wits .
7	I have never been competent in an emergency , and time was lost as I tried to figure out whether to dial 999 , or 9 for an outside line then 999 .
8	So we were busy , with hospital visits , lots of visitors , Emily 's half term , another visit from Shanti 's first mother and her family , and our own immediate family coming and going , I can honestly say , I have never been bored !
9	I have never been regular , so it is not disturbing to find them light , blotchy and short-lived .
10	For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation .
11	‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much .
12	Myself , I have never been happier .
13	As I have never been interested in argument , he must often have felt frustrated by my silences , my refusal to rise to the bait .
14	I have never been frightened of the press .
15	‘ Oh , no , my dear Shiona , I fear I have never been wrong about you .
16	Abse puts his faith in Heseltine , whom I have never been able to take seriously as a politician .
17	And in the process of contesting racist representations of the negro 's ‘ sensuality ’ Fanon adds : ‘ I have never been able , without revulsion , to hear a man say of another man : ‘ He is so sensual ! ' ’
18	I have never been able to understand this preoccupation with ministerial holidays .
19	I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance .
20	I have never been able to find out its origin . )
21	Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway .
22	I have never been able to bring myself to put my dog in kennels if I go away .
23	I have never been able to ascertain just why such an arrangement should exist , since there would seem to be no 480 volt mains supplies .
24	We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again .
25	Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination .
26	Still holding the jug by the handle but not lifting it yet , she said , ‘ I have never been able to understand why small children are so disgusting .
27	I have never been able to remove the inevitable bright yellow stain it produces and neither has any other paper conservator that I know .
28	I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star .
29	The other companion , NGC 205 , is beyond binocular range ; at least , I have never been able to see it without a telescope .
30	I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 .