Example sentences of "ever [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |
| 2 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 3 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 5 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 6 | The British Steel Challenge inspired him , too , although the only sailing he had ever done was on a windsurfer . |
| 7 | AMERICAN journalist William Shirer 's Berlin Diary records on September 18 that year : ‘ The longest Red Cross train I 've ever seen was at the Potsdamer Bahnhof . |
| 8 | One of the most impressive examples of one-room living that I have ever seen was in a long , narrow space approximately 7.5 m by 3 m ( 24 ft by 10 ft ) . |
| 9 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 10 | ‘ The best times I 've ever had were with my kids . |
| 11 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 12 | The Captain was freer than he could ever remember being in his whole career . |
| 13 | But the funniest expression I ever heard was in New Zealand where I was staying with friends of mine and their young daughter . |
| 14 | Could he ever have been in love with her ? |
| 15 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 16 | Marie could not remember ever having been inside a hospital before . |
| 17 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |
| 18 | There is no record of a dram-bottle from Darwin ever having been in the family ; there is , however , a beautiful silver compass inscribed ‘ Mr. Gould from C. Darwin Esq ’ . |
| 19 | You know , when all I 've ever known is plus is this way , negative this way , it 's either that way or that way , you know . |
| 20 | Before you get the idea that such a bias occurs only in national competitions , I would like to point out that the worse case of this I ever saw was in a world championship . |
| 21 | Anythin' I ever did was for me family . |
| 22 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 23 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 24 | The first medal I ever won was in the egg and spoon race . |
| 25 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 26 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 27 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
| 28 | ‘ But do you know , I think the happiest time I ever had was in the army ; though there were some funny times , real bad times . |
| 29 | ‘ At the same time , the saddest call I ever had was from a boy who said he had marvellous parents who gave him everything . |
| 30 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |