Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had never [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 2 | Everything made sense now — his obsessional hatred of the drugs world , his grim determination to fight the dealers , his refusal to accept her repeated protests that she had never been involved . |
| 3 | Their other sister , Jane , had married Robert Fellowes , a member of the Queen 's permanent staff , the year before ; and , given the rest of the Spencer family 's connections with the Royal family , the surprise was that she had never been invited before . |
| 4 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 5 | It had all gone on Papa 's account , as Paul had brought the fact to her notice that she had never been paid a penny for all her years of work . |
| 6 | It seemed to her that she had never been taken seriously before . |
| 7 | It was equally possible that you had never been forced to respond to a man before . ’ |
| 8 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 9 | There were doctors concerned that they had never been given any information about a nuclear accident , farmers worried about the effect of contamination on their stock and crops , and a teacher who recited his own poem about a nuclear disaster and then presented the Inspector with an oak leaf from the Quantocks . |
| 10 | It is possible to see that they had never been lived in , could never be lived in , though front door and portico are present and their ranks of windows , the spaces where the glass should be painted a dull blue . |
| 11 | Ten patients ( 3.2% ) claimed that they had never been advised to check their urine , a further 39 ( 13% ) never checked their urine , and 53 ( 17% ) checked their urine less than weekly . |
| 12 | In brief , in 1615 Andrewes was a member of a commission appointed to consider the request of Lady Essex for an annulment of her marriage on the grounds that it had never been consummated . |
| 13 | For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered . |
| 14 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 15 | The Lord President referred to the fact that it had never been suggested that trustees were not assessable under the old Schedule A or under Schedule B or Schedule D. |