Example sentences of "[verb] ever [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 2 | No-one has ever wanted to be sent to Coventry . |
| 3 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 4 | We were then both at a very comfortable period of life , and I do n't know why no one has ever prayed to the gods for perpetual middle age . |
| 5 | ‘ No artist I have ever known has ever felt to assured of the immortality of her work — or of the salvation of her soul , ’ |
| 6 | Well if you think about it it 's the only principle that America has ever gone to war over . |
| 7 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 8 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 9 | But I wonder if Harry has ever listened to Schumann ? she thought . |
| 10 | Yet Mr Smith is not only proposing to raise tax in one go by more than anyone has ever dared to before but also concentrating the effect on a relatively small group . |
| 11 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 12 | Not one piece of evidence has ever come to light to suggest that red kites attack live sheep or lambs . |
| 13 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 14 | Now no-one 's ever seen a quark for the simple reason that no-one has ever managed to produced a free quark . |
| 15 | A quark supposedly has one third charge or two thirds charge , but nobody has ever managed to actually produced a free quark , but people do believe they exist because they explain almost all the properties that neutrons and protons have , and other particles . |
| 16 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 17 | Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 18 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 19 | ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . |
| 20 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before . |
| 22 | If this has ever happened to you then Thames police are offering a golden opportunity to improve your driving . |
| 23 | Erm , I am not aware , as I say , I 'm not aware that anybody in Tarmac has ever switched to a one , but I , I 'm , which I find quite remarkable , erm , but you can do it if you , if you feel the need to . |
| 24 | Not that she 'd ever wanted to , as she told Apricot . |
| 25 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 26 | It was the first time she 'd ever spoken to Aunt Sarah and come away with this feeling of no comfort , no help , weighing her down as if the big brass door stop from the porch had got lodged inside her . |
| 27 | However , by no stretch of the imagination would she have ever referred to this magnificent house as a ‘ cottage ’ . |
| 28 | So our problem is understanding why it should have ever occurred to God that we needed redeeming , saving , restoring , in such a radical way . |
| 29 | After his death , country people acquainted with him around Etten were astonished that ‘ that Vincent ’ could have ever amounted to anything . |
| 30 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |