Example sentences of "had ever [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo . |
| 2 | You have to understand that no one but my family had ever lived at Low Birk Hatt before I sold it . |
| 3 | Durkheim belonged to that contemplative school of armchair theorists epitomized by Sir James Frazer , who is supposed to have solemnly replied ‘ God forbid ! ’ to the innocent questioner who asked if he had ever lived amongst ‘ savages ’ . |
| 4 | The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it . |
| 5 | If he had ever existed outside her overheated imagination . |
| 6 | No one who had ever struggled in the mire as she had , could fail to understand . |
| 7 | BBC bosses wanted to know about her love life … and if she had ever posed for sexy photos . |
| 8 | Poor Harry , so incongruously yoked in the forced democracy of death , whose stiffening body would receive far more attention in its dissolution than it had ever received in life . |
| 9 | The result tied the record for the worst drubbing an American pair had ever received in Ryder Cup Fourballs and also sent Olazabal into raptures about his senior partner . |
| 10 | It was the first letter they had ever received from him . |
| 11 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 12 | It was the worst thing she had ever said to him , but it had come out unpremeditated and could not be unsaid . |
| 13 | It could not have come about if the Trust had ever said to itself ‘ it is time to stop growing ’ . |
| 14 | It was the most intimate thing he had ever said to her . |
| 15 | There was n't one word of commendation in anything he had ever said to her . |
| 16 | She remembered every single thing Vitor d'Arcos had ever said to her , Ashley thought , in grim self-mockery . |
| 17 | Yes indeed , she knew now if she had ever gone to the Ragged School that 's what would have happened . |
| 18 | Kicking the Sheraton cabinet quietly had been as far as he had ever gone in destructiveness . |
| 19 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 20 | It was the only sexual advance she had ever made to him and he knew it would be the last . |
| 21 | In fact , it was a stubborn virginity , which took all his strength to remove ; while he wrought at it she gave way to wailing , then it broke at last , a cry ; perhaps the only natural sound Emily had ever made in face of the only reality that had ever assailed her . |
| 22 | £500 a year , ’ he exulted — it was more than any of his family had ever made in their lives . |
| 23 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 24 | It was the longest journey she had ever made in her life , and she had never been farther north than Harringay Arena . |
| 25 | After twenty years this was the first time George had ever referred to what had happened . |
| 26 | It was the first time she had ever referred to herself as Jake 's sister . |
| 27 | There was a future now , brighter than he had ever hoped for . |
| 28 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
| 29 | It was also unthinkable to have to admit to this maternity nurse that the sex of her baby was the last thing she had ever worried about . |
| 30 | This was the closest she had ever ventured to him , and she was forcefully aware of masculine warmth and cleanliness and an indefinable something else — an aura , almost — that for some reason made her nerve ends prickle warningly . |