Example sentences of "[pers pn] have never been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been to New Earth before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 6 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 7 | I 've never been to that have you ? |
| 8 | I 've never been into virtual reality but as I guess I 'm on the younger side of your readership at 18 I bet it will feature strongly by the time I enter the working world . |
| 9 | I 've never been into that scene . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never been into that ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud ’ type poetry , could n't really get to grips with it . |
| 12 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You know , ’ said he , between great chewings , ‘ I 've never been in one of these places before . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I have never been to this town before , but I do not think she is a typical resident of Bournemouth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He is as you know , 67 , but I have never been amongst those who thought that he was growing old and tired … he is , I think , just as fit as the day when I first saw him in July 1946 . |
| 19 | ‘ I have never been in rural ministry , ’ Daniel said . |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 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 | Well we 've never been along that , actually . |
| 24 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 25 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 26 | Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |
| 29 | See it 's never been off that heating . |
| 30 | He 's never been to National Tyres . |