Example sentences of "never been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 2 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |
| 3 | Londoner Ken Butler moved to the Fens 12 years ago , where space has never been at a premium , to carry on his profession of carpenter specialising in reproduction furniture . |
| 4 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 5 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 6 | Mr Parkinson told journalists later : ‘ It has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 7 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 8 | I 've never been with a girl , I do n't know how to react around one . |
| 9 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 10 | Topaz had never been with a man before , but some instinct told her how to arouse Andrew . |
| 11 | At the same time he knew that she would be aware that he had never been with a woman before . |
| 12 | I had never been with a killer before . |
| 13 | For some the relationship has broken down , others have never been with the father . |
| 14 | Many young drivers , like Paul Standen , may have passed their test , but have never been on a motorway . |
| 15 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've never been on a cruise . |
| 17 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 18 | You may find that older dogs are nervous under these circumstances , if they have never been on a train or bus before , and you should always try to reassure them with your tone of voice . |
| 19 | I 've never been on a train before . ’ |
| 20 | We went to the airport , I 'd never been on a plane before , we were going to America — we got to the airport and — nothing . |
| 21 | Now I 've never been on a camel before and these guys , I mean , they do n't wash ; just roll around in the sand . |
| 22 | I 've never been on a diet . |
| 23 | I have never been on a diet . |
| 24 | I had never been on a glacier before . |
| 25 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never been on a boat before , ’ he admitted to Tommy , ‘ unless you count the paddle steamer at Brighton . ’ |
| 27 | Oh I said , yes she said , I like going on a boat , she said not that I 've been on one she said she 's never been on a boat across |
| 28 | I have never been on a mountain with so many other people before . |
| 29 | Well I know , but it was sad because in Gosport that was what keep most of them going , I mean like they said none of them have never been on the dole before , they 've all been there since they 've left school , there was a couple there |
| 30 | The issue of retirement had never been on the agenda previously , quite simply because people died much younger in earlier generations . |