Example sentences of "that [pron] have never be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 3 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 4 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 5 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 6 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 7 | Everything made sense now — his obsessional hatred of the drugs world , his grim determination to fight the dealers , his refusal to accept her repeated protests that she had never been involved . |
| 8 | Their other sister , Jane , had married Robert Fellowes , a member of the Queen 's permanent staff , the year before ; and , given the rest of the Spencer family 's connections with the Royal family , the surprise was that she had never been invited before . |
| 9 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 10 | It had all gone on Papa 's account , as Paul had brought the fact to her notice that she had never been paid a penny for all her years of work . |
| 11 | It seemed to her that she had never been taken seriously before . |
| 12 | She walked out of the door , grateful that her marriage had brought her perhaps one thing of value , and that was freedom at last from her belief that she 'd never been loved . |
| 13 | Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment . |
| 14 | As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered . |
| 15 | It was equally possible that you had never been forced to respond to a man before . ’ |
| 16 | Erm , on the emergency call out I getting surprised that this council insist that it 's lit if we do n't need it er at all service , I 'm sure , I 'm quite certain that we have never been told that there 's always been a question of anything that goes to actually give us a better call out service . |
| 17 | We have said that we have never been committed — it is not something new — to paying the full fees , however high . |
| 18 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 19 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 25 | I have often read that the use of fish knives is considered passé , and that they have never been used by the aristocracy . |
| 26 | In brief , in 1615 Andrewes was a member of a commission appointed to consider the request of Lady Essex for an annulment of her marriage on the grounds that it had never been consummated . |
| 27 | For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered . |
| 28 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 29 | The Lord President referred to the fact that it had never been suggested that trustees were not assessable under the old Schedule A or under Schedule B or Schedule D. |
| 30 | It is highly doubtful that any offshore centre could claim that it has never been tainted by drugs money . |