Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have ever [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do ! |
2 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
3 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
4 | The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger . |
5 | It was like nothing I 'd ever experienced before — so much feeling , so much exquisite joy . |
6 | ‘ 'T WAS like nothing I 've ever felt before either . |
7 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
8 | Paradouze was the only person to whom I 'd ever felt close . |
9 | Rose Macaulay , so often mentioned by Ivy , was the only other person whom I have ever tried to meet — unsuccessfully , for dates did not fit . |
10 | You 're … you 're like no-one I 've ever met or would hope to meet . ’ |
11 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
12 | tell you a true story , right , tell you a story there 's nobody you 've ever seen |
13 | Danish cuisine was n't anything to which she had ever given much thought before but ‘ when in Denmark ’ … |
14 | ( On one occasion with magnificent inconsequence , she had remarked after staring at one of Clara 's dazzling reports , " Well , handsome is as handsome does " ; this was the only occasion on which she had ever said anything complimentary about Clara 's looks . ) |
15 | Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls . |
16 | His liaisons with various ladies of the Kha-Khan 's court were not a matter which he had ever attempted to keep secret , and more than one irate would-be challenger — usually the father or brother of the lady in question — had gone away with a thoughtful expression on his face after witnessing a display of alien skill at arms . |
17 | By 1920 , in the establishment of the peacetime National Maritime Board , Wilson had achieved everything which he had ever expected or desired in the building of relationships with the employers . |
18 | The rage burned a week , after which she fell totally silent for three days ; a silence broken by a grief like nothing she 'd ever experienced before . |
19 | It was like nothing she 'd ever experienced before : a sensuous hedonistic time of utter physical pleasure . |
20 | He led her into the bedroom , which was glowing with an intense white light like nothing she had ever seen in England . |
21 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before . |
22 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
23 | He was the only living person whom she had ever heard using the vocative case . |
24 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
25 | Severed from the only person with whom she had ever shared a meaningful degree of closeness , she lapsed into a state of almost trance-like disconnection , all energy gone . |
26 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
27 | I 'd get everything I 've ever wanted . ’ |
28 | Then I fell in love with Tom , who is everything I 've ever wanted in a partner . |
29 | Everything I 've loved , everything I 've ever wanted in life you 've taken away from me , so you have Natasha . |
30 | ‘ I 'm forgetting everything I 've ever known about them . |