Example sentences of "they [verb] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 2 | When they recovered , there was no destruction of the heart , lungs and they could go back and work , a young person , as if they 'd never been ill . |
| 3 | ‘ Edward is Stephen 's half-brother ; they 've never been close . |
| 4 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
| 5 | ‘ Each one blossoms and they return home to be far more independent and mature in their own little way , because they have done and seen things in a way they 've never been able to do before . |
| 6 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |
| 7 | They 've never been hard on me on times to come in and that , but he 's great now . |
| 8 | Get a divorce they , they 've never been happy at all since they 've been married have they ? |
| 9 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 10 | In this sense they had never been closer . |
| 11 | He impressed Meredith Jones as he impressed Philip Burton — both to an extent that they had never been impressed before , driving them to help him help himself . |
| 12 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 13 | They had never been this alone and this close together , and there was just no way not to be intensely aware of him . |
| 14 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |
| 15 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 16 | There was some shrapnel in one of his legs which they had never been able to get out . |
| 17 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 18 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 19 | Most children who suffer from day wetting have primary enuresis , that is they have never been dry by day . |
| 20 | Applying the satanic indicators , they can find signs anywhere , but they have never been able to furnish proof . |
| 21 | ‘ They have never been slow to give huge subsidies to win orders . |
| 22 | Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters . |