Example sentences of "never [been] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 2 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
| 3 | There had never been a case quite like this in Scotland before . |
| 4 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 5 | There has never been a case where the ‘ B ’ sample has not matched the ‘ A ’ . |
| 6 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 7 | There has never been a ban on supplying nicotine substitutes to individual patients . |
| 8 | Gooch has never been a person to dwell on the past . |
| 9 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 10 | Gentlemen , not only had our trade been inundated with boys , but fortunately or unfortunately , we have had another element introduced , and you know that I have never been a person who ignored the company of the opposite sex . |
| 11 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 12 | With most people homesickness was inevitable but Eva had already been away from her family for several years and had never been a person to sit and pine for long . |
| 13 | I 've never been a person that gets something for nothing . |
| 14 | Rosemary , at forty , told me : I 've never been a child |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never been a child , ’ she told me . |
| 16 | ( Though the city has never been a paradise , especially in warm weather . |
| 17 | Tom … he 's never been a mouser in his life , I do n't imagine . |
| 18 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |
| 19 | He had never been a man to face up to anything unpleasant . |
| 20 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But it is certainly true that there have never been a king and queen who are divorced . |
| 22 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 23 | The sort of ‘ gallivanting about ’ that he seemed always to associate with her had never been a part of her life at all . |
| 24 | I 've never been a part of any plot ! |
| 25 | They have never been a part of Middlesbrough , except that for the Post Office 's convenience that town is used as an addition to their postal address . |
| 26 | There has never been a day , nor yet an hour , when I have not ached for the loss of that which existed before Lucifer led his followers against the gods . |
| 27 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
| 28 | I 've absolutely never been a Jason Donovan fan before Christmas number one 's going to be Bohemian Rhapsody which I do like you know |
| 29 | But despite this and other anthems of our time , like ‘ N-I-X-O-N ’ , ‘ Tricky Dicky Was A Rock ‘ n ’ Roller ’ and ‘ Plot Against The Prezident ’ ( correct spelling has never been a Dick-Nixs essential ) , when the time came , America turned its back on the band 's hero . |
| 30 | Currently the independent music scene , with a few shining exceptions , is concerned with making a successful career , selling a lot of records , and that 's never been a concern of mine . |