Example sentences of "she have never been a " in BNC.

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1 She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man .
2 She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck .
3 She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast .
4 It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions .
5 She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now .
6 She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor .
7 She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen .
8 Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum .
9 She had never been a tense or anxious person .
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