Example sentences of "[vb past] never [been] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 No , I 'd never been given that option .
2 But Mike was hurting too much already from the blow that had split his nose ; he 'd never been hit that hard .
3 Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate .
4 She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly .
5 He said a total of 24 dogs had died and despite many samples being taken away the local people had never been given any results .
6 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 .
7 Mr Siddle said they had never been given any written instructions by Redpath Offshore about safety , but as a skilled workman he knew about having to support loads .
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