Example sentences of "never [been] used [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 . |
2 | The result , according to the DEA spokesman 's sworn testimony , was a classified 350-page report , reviewed and confirmed by its sister agency , the FBI , showing that Jafaar had never been used as an informant or subsource and that no DEA agent or office had ever had any contact with him . |
3 | I 've never been used to that . |
4 | He 'd never been used to them . |
5 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
6 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |
7 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
8 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
9 | That company company car has never been used for company use . |
10 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
11 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
12 | The technique has never been used before and , if necessary , will be attempted again tomorrow . |
13 | These have never been used in studies with humans . |
14 | Most of the display has never been used in anger , or self defence . |
15 | I have often read that the use of fish knives is considered passé , and that they have never been used by the aristocracy . |