Example sentences of "[vb past] never been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the forays of his brother-in-law , Charles Coxen , this area had never been explored for birds . |
| 2 | Malcolm Scott had never been called for throwing in his life , nor warned of what was to come . |
| 3 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 4 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 5 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |
| 6 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 7 | Pc Court , who joined Derbyshire police 17 years ago , had never been interviewed for the CID . |
| 8 | It had never been known for them to stay less than three hours — not that Mum minded . |
| 9 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 10 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 11 | When she was a small child people had stopped in the street asking why this little girl with the blonde , almost white , curls had never been chosen for the Pears soap advertisement … the one where it said , ‘ Growing up to be a beautiful lady ’ . |
| 12 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |