Example sentences of "never [been] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 4 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 8 | The substance had never been given to animals before . |
| 9 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 10 | Constance had never been given flowers before and she beamed with pleasure . |
| 11 | Surprisingly , for a progenitor of such masterpieces as the Stations of the Cross in Westminster , Gill has never been given a retrospective of his sculpture , a void which the Barbican Art Gallery is filling with a collection of over 50 works in stone and related drawings , engravings , and contemporary photographs which reveal the paradoxical creativity of this artist , sensually spiritual and ascetically erotic . |
| 12 | In common with other types of support which I have considered here it seems that practical help , even when on a fairly small scale , has never been given to relatives automatically and without some assessment being made of the wider social context . |
| 13 | It is true that Beccaria 's classical programme has never been given a full trial ( the image of his public floggings and toiling chain-gangs rather than his denial of capital punishment may help the liberal-minded to feel this less of a loss ) . |
| 14 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 15 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 16 | The basic problem is that , unlike other courses in this field , they have never been given into the care and custody of a national body so that there is no established basis for recognition , either as equivalent to qualifications at a similar level in other fields or as a stage leading to higher level courses . |
| 17 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 18 | Poor Kate had never been given a chance to answer . |
| 19 | If it is n't correct , I would like to know why Engineering 's approval has been withheld , because I have never been given any indication , at any stage , that there were any major problems regarding the project . |
| 20 | Her aunt had never been given to sell — pity . |
| 21 | that I would also put it on in relation to your , to , to , to , to , to your Lordship and to considering the matter in interim , your Lordship has er , erm , er heard er the information that had been put forward er by the society , you have seen the er information about the position the commission has taken , your Lordship knows that the commission was informed about both the act and all the relevant byelaws in the present case , the precursored , the central fund byelaw was informally proved by the commission Mrs has sworn on affidavit that the society has never been given any indication that the matters in issue in the European Law Defence are contrary to competition rules and your Lordship also has the answer by the commission to the European parliament which is exhibited to Mrs affidavit and which I took your Lordship to earlier and of which judicial note can be taken by virtual section three , two of the European communities act , so my Lord we say that there is already a body of information which provides a basis if one has to consider what should be done in the interim of saying that in the interim the application of the act and the application for byelaws should be maintained , the third element my Lord is the intimate link between the recoveries of money for the central fund , er under the byelaw and the implementation of the United Kingdom 's operations under directive seventy three , two , three , nine , we 've been over this before my Lord erm , my Lord is , is aware of the intimate link er between the er recovery of monies to central fund , the maintenance solvency and the paying of policy holders . |
| 22 | I was concerned , Dennis has never been given any schedule since he last spoke to erm Arthur which was get as much down as you can boy . |
| 23 | 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 . |