Example sentences of "ever [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one of the most remarkable uses of tools either of us has ever witnessed was the result of a remarkable piece of thinking — we use the word deliberately — by a Japanese macaque . |
| 2 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
| 3 | Looking back on the deal , Chapman believed that ‘ one of the best bargains I ever made was the most costly one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |
| 5 | You know , I mean I know he said that the best thing , decision we ever made was not to go to erm Raynes Park because the wicket really has deteriorated on that , but he has a lot of contacts and things . |
| 6 | The first deer book I ever met was Mortimer Batten 's The Singing Forest . |
| 7 | ‘ The first vehicle I ever owned was a moke like that , ’ he said , when the toddler 's fist opened . |
| 8 | I wrote him several times and all the answer I ever got was I 'm well-here-and-I-hope-you-are-well-there . |
| 9 | The last thing Akhenaten ever taught was vengeance : the idea was so foreign to his nature that he would never have entertained the thought . |
| 10 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 11 | By far the best I ever used was ‘ Humber Eclipse Fish Manure ’ which used the waste from the fishing industry as the raw material , but it is no longer obtainable as such because the fish content is redirected to cattle and poultry feeds . |
| 12 | ( In the whole time I was there , all she ever caught was eels . ) |
| 13 | The onle thing we ever ownd was a hamster and he got dun in by Mr Blackadder . |
| 14 | The only job I 've ever done was selling trendy clothes so I 've got wardrobes full of them . |
| 15 | So I was doin' about a gram of heroin , a gram of cocaine , the most I ever done was a gram . |
| 16 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 17 | We wondered what to do next , because the only other thing I 'd ever done was box . |
| 18 | The British Steel Challenge inspired him , too , although the only sailing he had ever done was on a windsurfer . |
| 19 | I would never have been able to respect myself if all I 'd ever done was take from my father . ’ |
| 20 | The only ones he 's ever done was bodge it and scarper himself so |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A middle-aged man with corn-coloured hair and the bluest eyes Willie had ever seen was sitting on a stool milking one of a handful of cows . |
| 23 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Second , they can be qualified by relative clauses : ( 26 ) the rudest , which was very rude indeed , is best forgotten now the longest that I have ever seen was about two metres and a half ( 27 ) the fragrant , which comes from Japan , is a splendid choice the triangular which you wanted has been sold |
| 26 | Up until now the only badger I 'd ever seen was dead on the side of the road . |
| 27 | The fact that Liz had also said Ross was kind , overwhelmingly generous , and one of the sexiest men she 'd ever met was not something that Laura wanted to think about at the moment . |
| 28 | Joseph of Arimathea — the only man he ever buried was alive and well three days later ! |
| 29 | THE owner of the first E-Type Jaguar ever built was reunited with his car yesterday after it was stolen by joyriders . |
| 30 | The first book I ever studied was Prout 's Strict Counterpoint , which bestows on polyphony an aura of mysterious excellence . |