Example sentences of "they have never [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome , they 'll wish they 'd never been born ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'll make those bastards wish they 'd never been born ! ’ he added savagely , before grabbing the telephone and calling his office in London . |
| 3 | The band had been playing together for two years , at school dances , in pubs and as support at a couple of bigger concerts , but they 'd never been written about before . |
| 4 | Perhaps they 've never been taught to write or how to handle criticism of their written work . |
| 5 | but because they 've never been taught , you know taught to do that sort of thing |
| 6 | They 've never been developed . |
| 7 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 8 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |
| 9 | ‘ Peter keeps uttering things over the years saying copyright has been given to him , that there was a letter , a document , but they 've never been produced . ’ |
| 10 | The two he uses on stage have held up well , though ; it 's remarkable because they 've never been rebuilt and they were made in 1959 . |
| 11 | They had never been parted before — they had never even lived in different houses . |
| 12 | The lino on the floor was scuffed and torn , the windows nearly opaque with grime , and the walls looked as if they had never been repainted since the place was constructed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now the barriers were back in place , as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all . |
| 15 | Reinstatement involves treating employees as if they had never been dismissed . |
| 16 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Siddle said they had never been given any written instructions by Redpath Offshore about safety , but as a skilled workman he knew about having to support loads . |
| 19 | Although intellectuals had always lived dangerously under Nicholas , they had never been silenced altogether . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But , though they have never been overruled , they have attracted strong adverse criticism . |
| 22 | They have never been influenced by public opinion in the past but perhaps these are exceptional times . |
| 23 | ‘ The Maktowms have been big spenders at Newmarket , but they have never been made really welcome there , ’ an insider told me . |
| 24 | Stern and Partridge admit that monographs and specialised studies already exist on all these rooms , and make no claim to have discovered new material , but justify their extended reconsideration of the ‘ halls of state ’ on the grounds that they have never been analysed together as monuments of public art . |
| 25 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 26 | The basic problem is that , unlike other courses in this field , they have never been given into the care and custody of a national body so that there is no established basis for recognition , either as equivalent to qualifications at a similar level in other fields or as a stage leading to higher level courses . |
| 27 | That immediately excludes about a quarter of our youngsters on the dole , because they have never been trained . |
| 28 | They have never been withdrawn since . |
| 29 | They have never been accepted as an equal ‘ nation ’ within Yugoslavia ; they have difficulty in obtaining recognition for their language ( except in Kosovo , where however there is now a threat that in future the official language will be Serbocroatian , and that all Albanian children will be forced to learn it at school ) ; and they consider that Serbs , in particular , regard them as inferiors and potential enemies . |
| 30 | They have never been shown or even reproduced . |