Example sentences of "i have never been [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 I 'd never been surrounded by so many nice things before , not even at the Lewises ' .
2 I said slowly , ‘ It could be because I 've never been dated by anyone I liked enough . ’
3 Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school .
4 I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting .
5 I have never been disturbed by the apparent anomaly that the death sentence remains in our law as the penalty for treason : I see no parallel or analogy between the punishment of crime within a society and the self-defence of a society against its enemies .
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