Example sentences of "[pron] have never been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an invitation to show work in the Arts Council 's ‘ Three Perspectives on Photography ’ show at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 which turned her back towards the family : ‘ I have never been asked to produce work for use in a gallery before , and had no idea what to expect when I showed it . |
| 2 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 4 | If it is n't correct , I would like to know why Engineering 's approval has been withheld , because I have never been given any indication , at any stage , that there were any major problems regarding the project . |
| 5 | I have never been cheered so loudly ! |
| 6 | I do sometimes go down to 2½lb , but although I have never been broken on it I never feel as confident as I ought . |
| 7 | In part , it says : ‘ I have not met bad people , I have never been robbed and whenever I left a village , people waved me with tearful eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have never been known to turn down a volunteer for any project . |
| 11 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 12 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 13 | ‘ I have never been considered in any way ; it was always yourself . |
| 14 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 15 | David Profumo wrote in the Daily Telegraph : ‘ Heresy as it is in literary circles , I have to say I have never been taken with the work of the late Angela Carter . |
| 16 | The mistaken view is that theory refers to ideas which have never been tested . |
| 17 | It is only in remote areas which have never been exposed to the infection that the problem occurs . |
| 18 | Obviously , he was now quite a celebrity , and in 1948 was signed up by Radcliffe in the Central Lancashire League ; he stayed with them until the end of 1952 , set batting records which have never been beaten , even by Sobers , and was hugely popular , for his personal qualities as much as his cricketing skills . |
| 19 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 20 | In 1981 concerns over the way the Social Work Department operated led to an inquiry , the results of which have never been made public . |
| 21 | As proof of its usefulness , the trap has caught many species which have never been observed in the garden . |
| 22 | If we take seriously the notion of ‘ unlimited number ’ , there must be , for any lexical form , potential senses which have never been realised in use : equally , every lexical form has at least one relatively well-utilised sense . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |
| 25 | Four hundred aircraft from fifty airforces , fourteen aerobatic teams , some planes which have never been seen in Britain before . |
| 26 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 27 | At that time I summarised German Enigma decrypts for Churchill at Bletchley Park which have never been released to the public . |
| 28 | Aviemore Cottage , built around 1886 , was demolished five years ago to make way for a block of flats — some of which have never been sold — while Aviemore House , a posting station on the old stagecoach route from Inverness , was pulled down by a property consortium in the 1960s . |
| 29 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |
| 30 | Gibson , deputy chairman of the Hardy Society , is now gathering opinions from the old boy 's contemporaries , many of which have never been published before . |