Example sentences of "[pers pn] have never [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never been a prime minister before . |
| 2 | I 've never been a big knitter . |
| 3 | No , I do n't boil onions , I 'm not , I 've never been a big onions chap . |
| 4 | I HAVE never been a good passenger . |
| 5 | I have never been a Christian feminist , with typical Christian feminist concerns and sensibilities . |
| 6 | Until now I have never been a particular admirer of Fifine , but somehow the improved quality brings out the score 's atmosphere and personality much more vividly , and Beecham 's exquisite handling of detail makes a much greater impact . |
| 7 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 8 | She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck . |
| 9 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 10 | She had never been a tense or anxious person . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've never been a real emotional team , win or lose . |
| 12 | It 's funny they 've never been a great juice freak really |
| 13 | It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility . |
| 14 | Yet it has never been a popular species . |
| 15 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
| 16 | Indeed it had never been a favourite pastime of hers . |
| 17 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 18 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 19 | He had never been a great wine drinker , but on every visit to the Mayfair Hotel in London ( which he used often ) he was presented with a complimentary bottle of wine . |
| 20 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 21 | He had never been a happy sightseer and until his work was done , until Harry Lawrence 's killer was identified and caught he could n't see himself playing the tourist at the Changing of the Guard , or the Tower of London , even Poets ' Corner which he had longed to see , as a passionate student of English poetry … that would have to wait . |