Example sentences of "[vb past] never [been] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence could n't make you feel that , because he 'd never been a worker . |
| 2 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 3 | Before Hilda he 'd never been the kind who liked to have certainty , but after she came he settled for her way . |
| 4 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 5 | He had never been a man to face up to anything unpleasant . |
| 6 | The sort of ‘ gallivanting about ’ that he seemed always to associate with her had never been a part of her life at all . |
| 7 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
| 8 | He maintained his innocence and claimed he had been willing to give his life for Castro but had never been a communist . |
| 9 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 10 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
| 11 | There had never been a case quite like this in Scotland before . |
| 12 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |
| 13 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 14 | With most people homesickness was inevitable but Eva had already been away from her family for several years and had never been a person to sit and pine for long . |
| 15 | He had never been a patient of mine before . ’ |
| 16 | Up until then people had made butter and sometimes cheese from the milk since there had never been a collection until Willie , who was a very good businessman , began to transport it out — on a horse and cart at first , until he acquired a wagon . |
| 17 | There had never been a time when they had not wrangled , and yet after his fashion he was fond of her . |
| 18 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 19 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 20 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 21 | On the other weekdays and at weekends , Father Barnes was expected to look after himself There had never been a job description . |
| 22 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 23 | Liking , let alone loving , had never been a requisite for the majority of men whose capacity for making love was triggered more by the physical attributes of a woman than the quality of her personality or character ! |
| 24 | She loved him deeply , but their relationship had generally been tacit ; there had never been a need for definition , explanations , analyses . |
| 25 | She failed to see , Mrs Stead-Carter finally declared , why it was that Miss Poraway , who had never been a mother , should concern herself with the Mothers ' Union in the first place . |
| 26 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 27 | It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions . |
| 28 | She herself had never been a woman to dote on babies and had found her own daughter much more interesting as she grew older . |
| 29 | Joshua , who had been in the Commons for over twenty years , knew only too well that there had never been a woman in the Conservative Whips ' Office . |
| 30 | Candy had never been a morning bird . |