Example sentences of "never [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've never been along that , actually . |
| 2 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 3 | U , of spectral type M , appears to be irregular , with a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 ; EU ranges from 6.0 to 6.9 , and is also of type M. It is said to be semi-regular , with a period of around 60 days , but I have never been at all confident about this . |
| 4 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 5 | I 've never been to that have you ? |
| 6 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 7 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 8 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 9 | I have never been to this town before , but I do not think she is a typical resident of Bournemouth . |
| 10 | I 've never been into that scene . ’ |
| 11 | Bryan agrees : ‘ I 've never been into that sort of high speed guitar playing , and if I was it would have to be something very melodic . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never been into that ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud ’ type poetry , could n't really get to grips with it . |
| 13 | Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction . |
| 14 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 15 | See it 's never been off that heating . |
| 16 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 17 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 18 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 19 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 20 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 21 | When Joyce was a teenager Commissioner Charles Duncan came to inspect the corps , and his words in one of the public meetings stuck in her memory : " I have never been in such a well ordered home . " |
| 22 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 24 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 25 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 26 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 27 | That 's never been in any doubt — particularly to him . |
| 28 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 29 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 30 | In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ? |