Example sentences of "never been a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 2 | I 've absolutely never been a Jason Donovan fan before Christmas number one 's going to be Bohemian Rhapsody which I do like you know |
| 3 | If you have , for example , never been a telephone subscriber before ( that is , even if you have had communal use of a telephone but it was not in your name ) you will have to pay a new subscriber charge plus a connection charge . |
| 4 | I reflected on it , but declined , principally because of my unwillingness to belong to any party — I have never been a party member — and perhaps even more because the seat I was offered appeared to be an impregnable Tory stronghold . |
| 5 | I 've never been a trade union man myself , never saw the point , but in terms of research and analysis I found the field a fascinating one . |
| 6 | Candy had never been a morning bird . |
| 7 | The landed gentry of Wiltshire and Dorset do , after all , have a knowledge of their counties that goes generations deep , and they are somewhat dismayed to find themselves with an academic bishop who has never been a parish priest and who , they feel , does not understand the nature of rural society . |
| 8 | Hoskins says that he 's never been a dab hand at the Mario video games despite tutoring from his seven-year-old son , Jack . |
| 9 | On the other weekdays and at weekends , Father Barnes was expected to look after himself There had never been a job description . |