Example sentences of "he [verb] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has never been busier and in the past year has taken on three full-time staff . |
| 2 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 3 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |
| 4 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 5 | He says he has never been able to get the image out of his mind . |
| 6 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 7 | For he has never been able to sleep much and talks with me late into the night . |
| 8 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 9 | He has never been enthusiastic about it , regarding the growing grassroots demand for proportional representation as a distraction from the main issues facing the party , but aides insist he now has an open mind about the outcome of the review . |
| 10 | Colin Wilson , however , may have been justified in remarking years later that he has never been angry about anything and Kingsley Amis has grown angry by growing conservative and old . |
| 11 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |
| 12 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 13 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 14 | But he has never been fitter and , with sponsorship from Lunn Poly for the first time , is giving his best shot at winning for Britain . |
| 15 | His coach Ron Roddan says that , at 32 , he has never been fitter , that the disappointment of the World Championships last year , in which he ran his guts out and finished fourth , provided the final necessary impetus to give everything for this final race . |
| 16 | He has his independence and he tells me he has never been happier in his life . |
| 17 | ‘ Of diphtheria , but he 'd never been strong . |
| 18 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 19 | Damn it , he had n't meant to betray that he 'd never been able to forget that afternoon , and the sweet innocence that had touched something very deep within him . |
| 20 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 21 | Maybe he had never been innocent . |
| 22 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 23 | He had never been much of a fellow for breasts . |
| 24 | Thrush Green was sorry to hear that he had never been married , had been married unhappily and was now separated from his wife , had been happily married and lost his wife in childbirth , and ( disastrously ) still married , with a wife who would be coming to live with him at the corner house within a few days . |
| 25 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 26 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 27 | He was a family man and , despite being a native New Yorker , he had never been closer to real violence in his whole life than on the TV. screen of his comfortable suburban house in Richmond . |
| 28 | Craig was suddenly in the room , moving towards her , holding out his arms to her as though he had never been absent . |
| 29 | He had never been afraid or apprehensive before , but now he realised that something was amiss . |
| 30 | He had never been this way before . |