Example sentences of "never [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There 's no key , there never are any keys to the rooms of these posh new houses .
2 Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me .
3 There 's never been much doubt about Kitson .
4 He 's never been much help to his father . ’
5 You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then .
6 But there 's never been much interest around here .
7 Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see .
8 Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before .
9 Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’
10 ‘ I 've never been this way before .
11 He had never been this way before .
12 Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do .
13 Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account .
14 There has never been any question about that .
15 There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out .
16 There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles .
17 I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario .
18 As there is no access to the shore there have never been any businesses based on the sea .
19 There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house .
20 There 's never been any communism in Russia communism in China .
21 There have never been any women chief constables , and women are in general at the lower levels of the police force .
22 Never been any sign of them , but I never swim far out anyway . ’
23 The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them .
24 The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now .
25 ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’
26 ‘ There 's never been any shortage of pocket money in this house . ’
27 ‘ There 's never been any kind of attraction between me and To — ’ She stopped , seeing the darkness in his eyes and understanding it .
28 There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them .
29 Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over .
30 There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else .
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