Example sentences of "never been [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted condescendingly in his diary that the wily Verdeţ was ‘ a most agreeable person who had never been outside a Communist country in his life … |
| 2 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 3 | You 've never been on a big boat ? |
| 4 | I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something . |
| 5 | I 've never been on the permanent staff . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was with British Steel before coming here and had never been to a live theatre show before except the pantomime as a kid . |
| 8 | Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night |
| 9 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 10 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 11 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 12 | That 's not to say that it is a waste of time reading it even if you have never been to the remote geographical placement . |
| 13 | ' Well , none of it is true — I 've never been to the Royal College of Art — or any college of art for that matter . |
| 14 | In addition , he had never been to the big house and had no idea where to go , or whom to see . |
| 15 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 16 | I just got that scared , because I 'd never been to an antenatal class , I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 17 | I only ask this question because devotees of this composer have probably never been in a better position to acquire a good cross-section of his output on disc . |
| 18 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 19 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 20 | Mr Gavron believes that the company has never been in a stronger position . |
| 21 | He has never been in a stronger position since he entered Parliament in 1984 — and he is not 40 until May . |
| 22 | And , and the people sitting in Shanghai , who have never been in the rural areas which is |
| 23 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 24 | Division three Redruth have never been in the last 16 and the Cornish crowd will have an early chance to make a big-match noise before their customary bid for a county final place . |
| 25 | We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . " |
| 26 | Of these two sets of firms , 12 have never been in the top 10 , and can be classified either as niche operations or unsuccessful major players . |
| 27 | With Caroline , Giles and Georgiana around , I 've never been in the slightest danger of getting the so-called high profile of my job out of perspective . |
| 28 | Dr Laternser immediately rose to protest that the witness had never been in the German army and therefore could not properly be asked or answer any such questions . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never been inside the local police station , ’ said Ethel . |
| 30 | " I 'd never been near the Chief Rabbit before . |