Example sentences of "had never be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |
| 2 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 3 | The entry specified that he had Spanish as a foreign language , which made me smile , for his Spanish had never been more than rudimentary , though of course it might have improved since he was in Salamanca . |
| 4 | With a child 's resilience she had quickly adjusted to the loss of her mother , who had never been more than a glamorous appendage on the periphery of her world , and Sally had stepped in to fill the breach more than adequately . |
| 5 | Frightened by the threat of invasion ( Fears in Solitude ) , he was beginning that slide or jump to the Right which angered and puzzled his liberal associates , though it is fair to say that his revolutionary sympathies , unlike Wordsworth 's , had never been more than superficial . |
| 6 | But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him . |