Example sentences of "[pron] have never been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 2 | I have never been disturbed by the apparent anomaly that the death sentence remains in our law as the penalty for treason : I see no parallel or analogy between the punishment of crime within a society and the self-defence of a society against its enemies . |
| 3 | We also have in the area a tremendous number of new houses which have never been contacted by us or for by any political party and I would hope that we might be able to do er something about the area behind the church there is er an area that comes to mind which could well be fruitful , and I would hope that we might during this year get er some kind of literature out to these places apart from election literature . |
| 4 | They have never been influenced by public opinion in the past but perhaps these are exceptional times . |
| 5 | I have often read that the use of fish knives is considered passé , and that they have never been used by the aristocracy . |