Example sentences of "[vb past] ever [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suppose they 'd ever heard of us . |
| 2 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 3 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 4 | ‘ But it is , ’ he insisted , as if this somehow ought to be the best news she 'd ever heard in her life . |
| 5 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 6 | Not that she 'd ever wanted to , as she told Apricot . |
| 7 | All that mattered was that he was the most exciting man she 'd ever met in her life . |
| 8 | He felt hurt and angry and older than he 'd ever felt in his life before . |
| 9 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 10 | Evans 's news was better than he 'd ever hoped for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After a half-hour programme with Bristol tennis girl Jo Durie , once in the top half dozen in the international ratings , she said it was by far the toughest thing she 'd ever done on television . |
| 13 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 14 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 15 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 16 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 17 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 18 | She was the loveliest girl that I 'd ever seen in my life , and her voice was like music . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 20 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 21 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 22 | It was the biggest crowd I 'd ever played in front of . |
| 23 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 24 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 25 | It was the first time I 'd ever thought of the baby as " he " . |
| 26 | I 'm Marty Hunter — ( Marty thought Graham ) — and I just wondered If you 'd ever thought of doing any mob " |
| 27 | It was the first time he 'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary . |
| 28 | ‘ Alleluia ! ’ said Francis , and sparkled like a tinsel waterfall , got Jay laughing and wondering recklessly why she 'd ever bothered with the bloody woman . |
| 29 | It was the most embarrassing thing I 'd ever experienced in my life — and in front of Peter . |
| 30 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |