Example sentences of "never been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
2 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
3 | Well I 'd never been on stage in my life before and there I was , suddenly going to be in front of King George and Queen Mary . |
4 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
5 | Her family were good , she said , " never caused us any bother " , and her husband was good , " d' you know , he 's never been to court in all his life . " |
6 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
7 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
8 | ‘ They told me I was in Thailand with him but I have never been to Thailand in my life . ’ |
9 | ( Matthew S. is very worried about creative writing , or any kind of writing , really … prefers practical things … has never been above average in language all his school life . |
10 | The Residency itself would be lost : the Collector had never been in doubt about that . |
11 | ‘ I have never been in attendance at such a consecration myself , ’ he said . |
12 | He 's also said : ‘ I 've never been in love with directors . |
13 | Chris though , according to Isabelle , insisted that Jayne had never been in love with him . |
14 | I 'd never been in love in my life till you came along . ’ |
15 | It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions . |
16 | She 'd crow all over the place to her friends , ‘ Do you know my husband has never been in contact with cutlery before ? ’ |
17 | This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren . |
18 | Never been in trouble at all like and and I 've certainly not seen any trouble . |
19 | This boy had never been in trouble with the law in his life . |
20 | He appears before the court for the first time , he 's of previous good character and erm and er has never been in trouble with the courts before and er Madam I 'm going to suggest to you that this incident was brought about not by any fault of his own , but , but by his girlfriend and her behaviour towards him . |
21 | ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’ |
22 | I 've never been in trouble with police . |
23 | He had never been in trouble before and was frightened and bewildered at his own behaviour . |
24 | Since 1973 , the UK in common with France has never been in surplus with the rest of the EC in trade in manufactured goods . |
25 | On admission Julie was experiencing lower abdominal pain , feeling nauseated , and worried about the prospect of an operation as she had never been in hospital before and was not often ill . |
26 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
27 | Constanza was out most of the time but when she dropped in to change , there they were , rattling Italian to each other , poring over Anna 's art books — ’ Bet you 've never been inside Sant'Agnese in Oscurità ? ’ |