Example sentences of "ever [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Have you ever broken the law ?
2 Anyone who has ever witnessed a ‘ meet the people ’ exercise knows it is an absurdity .
3 Because the nets are usually deployed many hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from shore , few but their crews have ever witnessed the damage inflicted on the marine ecosystem by the drift-net vessels .
4 Have you ever heard a husband on the verge of asking for a divorce finding fault with his wife , picking a quarrel or blackening her name to others ?
5 And he said , ‘ Have you ever heard a Thin Lizzy record ? ’
6 This instrument must be familiar to every one who has ever heard a military band .
7 Before she went back to bed , she said to me , ‘ Helen , have you ever heard a whistle in the middle of the night ? ’
8 They say women are bitchy but have you ever heard a conversation betwe
9 None of us had ever heard the name of the camp before .
10 Who now has ever heard the operas of Koželuh , Graun , Hasse , Salieri , even of Joseph Haydn , Mozart 's greatest contemporary , and his only serious rival ?
11 Agate conceded that one occasionally saw cabinet ministers at the movies , but it was obvious to him that this particular audience had never heard the Mendelssohn , whilst his friend was prompted to comment that it was ‘ the first time they 've ever heard the fiddle ’ .
12 have you ever heard the word or the phrase hooking the punters , either at or or ?
13 Have you ever heard an inflatable go B-A-N-G ! ! !
14 I think that 's maybe because we 're Orcadian for no matter how good we 're feeling if we go you know that yourself if you go south anywhere and you meet up with just anybody that 's ever heard an Orcadian .
15 ‘ Nobody 's ever given a member of staff here flowers before , ’ he observed with a twinkle .
16 But yesterday , Susan Fey , of the CTC Trust , said , ‘ We were only ever given a target of 20 .
17 No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall .
18 NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments .
19 He says to me , ‘ Tip , I 'm going to give you more money than anyone 's ever given a caddie before , but just look after my clubs .
20 So , in addition to the high increases in taxation that the Labour party would impose if it was ever given a chance , the community charge payer , or the council tax payer , would be ripped apart by high-spending Labour authorities , because there would be no capping .
21 The US components divisions would hit the goddamned roof if that proposal was ever given the light of day .
22 Never ever joined the Cubs or the Scouts
23 Do you suppose that Artai has ever examined the old maps ? ’
24 Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room .
25 As for the artistic effects of invasion and concentration camps , that can only prompt the awkward question whether the ensuing creativity of occupied Europe ever justified the price that was enforced and paid .
26 Only 18 patients , including only half of the most severely affected group , whose speech carers found impossible to understand , had ever received an assessment by a speech therapist ( table V ) .
27 She had no idea whether he had ever received the letter which she had felt obliged to write , telling him she was pregnant .
28 If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton .
29 They were also asked if they had ever consulted a doctor about recurrent bowel symptoms or abdominal pain .
30 Have you ever calculated the value of the tools , implements , cycles , etc that are kept in your garage or shed ?
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