Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] i [verb] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 2 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 3 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 4 | It is one of the most interesting books I have ever read … not because Rorty is claiming to have discovered the Truth but because he has written a fine description of our confusion and of our capacity to create our own selves . |
| 5 | I confess she was one of the merriest tumbles I have ever had . |
| 6 | It was the first display of his own eidetic abilities I had ever witnessed ; before that all his efforts in this respect had been directed at infiltrating my internal visual world . |
| 7 | It is one of the most popular things I have ever done . ’ |
| 8 | It was one of the most demanding scenes I 've ever done . ’ |
| 9 | No comfortable chairs , and the ugliest curtains I 've ever seen . |
| 10 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's done , and although I say so me'self , it 's one of the neatest jobs I 've ever performed . ’ |
| 14 | For tea , like breakfast , is a great British forte , and one of the most charming weddings I have ever been to in Britain took place at teatime . |
| 15 | Smith called him ‘ one of the most conscientious and hard-working officers I 've ever met ’ . |
| 16 | Those that were n't instantly flattened proved to be the first genuinely air-worthy chickens I had ever seen . |
| 17 | ‘ The only real wives I have ever had are my sailing ships ’ , he is reputed to have once said . |
| 18 | That is one of the most serious threats I 've ever made . ’ |
| 19 | This was one of the most one-sided 1–1 draws I 've ever seen . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the finest appointments I have ever made ’ . |
| 21 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 22 | It was not long before a low whistle called us to where Valdemar stood , and he pointed : on a branch about six metres above us sat one of the most magnificent birds I had ever seen . |
| 23 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the loveliest places I 've ever seen . |
| 25 | Which brings us to perhaps the most phenomenal yearly stats I have ever had the pleasure of analysing . |
| 26 | That rod was about afoot too short and had one of the most unforgiving actions I have ever seen . |
| 27 | I 'd say it 's one of the finest and hardest routes I have ever done . |
| 28 | ‘ One of the most remarkable quartets I have ever encountered ; I have no doubt they are destined for greatness . ’ |
| 29 | We did so , obediently , waited for an hour , then took them out again , made a fire out of the cases and ate one of the most welcome meals I have ever enjoyed — of tea and hot sausages . |
| 30 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |