Example sentences of "but he [verb] never been " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nanny had scolded him over and over , but he had never been able to stop . |
| 2 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 3 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |
| 4 | " Tricky Dick " Nixon was an astute party politician , but he had never been able to project an appealing public " image " . |
| 5 | They had not thought of him often in the years between , but he had never been very far from the borders of their hard and wary lives . |
| 6 | ‘ Of diphtheria , but he 'd never been strong . |
| 7 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 8 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |
| 9 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 10 | The Spaniard has been down before , but he has never been counted out . |
| 11 | But he has never been fitter and , with sponsorship from Lunn Poly for the first time , is giving his best shot at winning for Britain . |
| 12 | But he has never been busier and in the past year has taken on three full-time staff . |
| 13 | He has visited Britain several times but he has never been even close to being caught and I am pleased about that . |
| 14 | But he 's never been out the , he was born like this . |
| 15 | Er nice guy but he 's never been in recruitment . |
| 16 | But he 's never been a journalist |