Example sentences of "never [verb] been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I find out he should never have been on the road . |
| 2 | Although the US may never have been on the brink of intervention in China she had sent 50,000 marines to Northern China in 1945 , followed by General Marshall acting as Truman 's personal representative . |
| 3 | Mr Gowans explained O'Connor should never have been on the beat . |
| 4 | Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on . |
| 5 | And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage . |
| 6 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 7 | This explains , says the professor , why all Archer 's characters seem never to have been through the growing-up process . |
| 8 | No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods . |