Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 | He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life . |
25 | It 's the first time it 's ever happened to me , you see , and I 'm not in the least afraid any more . " |
26 | This is the most embarrassing thing that 's ever happened to me . |
27 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
28 | This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’ |
29 | Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck , the greatest thing that 's ever happened to me . |
30 | In fact it 's probably the most exciting thing that 's ever happened to me . ’ |