Example sentences of "who [vb past] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood facing each other in the hall , mother and son who had never been close , locked in the eternal triangle . |
| 2 | But the fastest increase took place among women who had never been married . |
| 3 | In the British context , Wenger ( 1984 ) found that married people were most likely to name a spouse as the person in whom they could most easily confide ; people who had never been married were most likely to name a brother or sister ; widows were most likely to name a child ; and in general , the likelihood that a child would be named increased with age . |
| 4 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 5 | Everything about him betrayed a man of enormous emotional strength who had never been able to commit himself . |
| 6 | In the second group , there were those countries , like Kenya , who had never been able to borrow much from the banks . |
| 7 | So with Amyas 's long , damp fingers pressed against her eyes , Jennifer was led stumbling into the passage , and on the way up to the house Sir Gregory tried to think how he was going to pacify his wife , who had never been able to forgive him for his infidelity and who had always resented the presence of his bastard 's daughter under her roof when she came to hear Mass . |
| 8 | The man who had never been safe became , upon leaving her , safe to her . |
| 9 | There were occasions when Felicity was almost afraid of her , and even Breeze , who had never been afraid of anyone , felt that Gay was sometimes beyond her ken . |