Example sentences of "never [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe . |
| 2 | He covers it up well , I never been as things wrong |
| 3 | I 've never been as sea sick in all my life ! |
| 4 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 5 | The two countries , he said , had never been at war , although he acknowledged North Korea 's right to seek property damages linked to Japan 's colonial rule , provided that they were backed up by " objective evidence " . |
| 6 | Some were novices who had never been on jungle training . |
| 7 | I 've never been on tour , but I 've been to the visitor 's centre , and |
| 8 | You should consider whether this is really what you want to do , or whether it is because you have never been on holiday alone before and the thought of it makes you nervous . |
| 9 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 10 | It is significant that the union which represents the employed workers of Cartón has never been on strike . |
| 11 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her taste , which had never been for understatement , influenced his , which had always been a little austere . |
| 15 | One set of parents were regular church-goers and genuine believers ; the other parents had probably never been to church since they were married — they were merely exercising their rights , within the established Church in Britain , to have their child baptized in the parish church . |
| 16 | Susie had never been to church . |
| 17 | Anyway , you 've never been to New York . |
| 18 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 19 | He is Joseph Zappala , a Florida property developer , who has never been to Spain and perhaps , more to the point , speaks no Spanish . |
| 20 | She had never been to Spain before but she had imagined it . |
| 21 | ‘ I have never been to Italy , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 22 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 23 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |
| 24 | It is worth remembering that there are still people in Britain today who have never been to London . |
| 25 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 26 | Consequently , many farm children have never been to school . |
| 27 | ‘ Have you never been to school ? ’ |
| 28 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 29 | never been to school again have ya ? |
| 30 | Neither church nor hotel authorities could accommodate canines and Luke had never been to kennels . |