Example sentences of "never been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 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 | Through all my sentences , and if you add them together , I 've done twenty-one , twenty-two months in all , there 's never been one day when I 've kept my mouth shut , without an argument or something . |
| 8 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 9 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 10 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 11 | The table was bare again , as if there had never been good food and wine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indian tours have never been simple affairs and after barely 24 hours the current one is shaping up like its predecessors . |
| 14 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |
| 15 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 16 | Spit and polish and the mindless regime of kit preparation have never been guiding principles in the Light Division ; nonetheless , each recruit takes a pride in his appearance and is at pains to ensure that his turnout is of the highest standard . |
| 17 | Nails ' mum and dad had never been homely sorts . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never been this way before . |
| 20 | He had never been this way before . |
| 21 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 22 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 23 | Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account . |
| 24 | There has never been any question about that . |
| 25 | There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As there is no access to the shore there have never been any businesses based on the sea . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There 's never been any communism in Russia communism in China . |