Example sentences of "have never been [vb pp] with [det] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Butler alleges that he has never been served with such an order .
2 Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ .
3 Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament .
4 Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger .
5 He had never been charged with any criminal offence .
6 She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity .
7 Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience .
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