Example sentences of "she [verb] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 2 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 3 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 4 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 5 | Until the 1982 health service dispute , she 'd never been involved in a trade union , nor had she ever gone to any meetings about anything . |
| 6 | She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men . |
| 7 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 8 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 9 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 10 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 11 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 12 | She had never been involved in his business and as it grew , saw considerably less of her husband . |
| 13 | Derek was confident that she had never been involved in anything subversive in her life or , for that matter , anything which was not completely dignified and fully reputable . |
| 14 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 15 | The Vale of Blackmoor was her only world , and she had never been far outside the valley . |
| 16 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 17 | Since that time , however , she had never been well . |
| 18 | Aunt Sophie woke suddenly , eyes clear , as though she had never been asleep . |
| 19 | And she had never been that . |
| 20 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 21 | She had never been ashamed of her body before — why should she let him make her feel this way ? |
| 22 | At home she had never been aware of it . |
| 23 | She thought she had never been happier , not even in Seville , which was peculiar because in Seville they had been free . |
| 24 | She had never been afraid to look straightly at whatever fortune sent her , to map its every feature , and acknowledge it for what it was . |
| 25 | She had never been able to stand against those pale , cold eyes , that flat , unimpassioned voice . |
| 26 | She had never been able to equal her sister 's matchless beauty , she knew , but at least she presented the world with a fair imitation of it . |
| 27 | Riding one of Jennie 's fabulous dressage schoolmasters , Katharine was able to experience a whole host of dressage movements from flying changes to pirouettes that she had never been able to try before . |
| 28 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 29 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 30 | She had never been able to talk about her fears with any of her friends . |