Example sentences of "have ever [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have ever stood on a sheep farmer 's hillside , as I have done many times in the Western Highlands of Scotland , and listened to the sheep calling to ( communicating with ) each other , you will immediately notice how their intonations are all different , as indeed are their faces . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've had to conquer every verst of territory we have ever gained . |
| 3 | ‘ New Orleans was one of the hardest courses I have ever played . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Mo is the sharpest , most dangerous goalscorer I have ever played alongside . |
| 5 | ‘ This is the best all-round team I have ever played in . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the best century I have ever played , ’ said Crowe as his side finished the third day on 277-6 -still 15 short of avoiding an innings defeat . |
| 7 | The 12,000 crowd expected in Sheffield will be the largest the Coopers have ever played in front of but the publicity that would accompany Olympic success for Great Britain could make Ian into hockey 's first Gazza-figure . |
| 8 | THIS is a major game for Mick Skinner , whom I consider one of the strongest and bravest guys I have ever played alongside . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've wanted to win every game I have ever played in and I will never change that outlook . |
| 10 | Which is the best cartridge game you have ever played ? |
| 11 | He hesitated for a moment , then he said , ‘ I wonder if any of you have ever played a game called ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 12 | But he revealed : ‘ That 's without a shadow of a doubt the hardest game I have ever played in . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The Wolves game in which we clinched promotion was one of the strangest games I have ever played . |
| 14 | ‘ The Wolves game in which we clinched promotion was one of the strangest games I have ever played . |
| 15 | That is the worst first nine I have ever played , and probably one of the best inward halves . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was the best match I have ever played in and proof that the underdog can sometimes come out on top . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , he is one of the best professionals I have ever played with — and I 've been around a few years ! ’ |
| 18 | That 's the bravest thing I have ever heard of . |
| 19 | King , reviled by many , but acknowledged as an expert in the cynical exploitation of the pop world sniped : ‘ I thought when Kylie Minogue did ‘ I Should Be So Lucky , Lucky , Lucky , ’ it was one of the most awful things I have ever heard . |
| 20 | Dury , who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen , but is ‘ persona grata in the Dirty Duck ’ , is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language . |
| 21 | His Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune was the strangest I have ever heard : drably overcast , not so much seductive as comatose , and so deathly slow that audible flute breaths were essential in the pauses . |
| 22 | Harold summed up by saying the discussion had been first-class : ‘ the best I have ever heard in this type of gathering ’ . |
| 23 | The reception was all that we had hoped and planned ; the young best man gave the best best man 's speech I have ever heard ! |
| 24 | ‘ But they produce one of the widest stereo sounds that I have ever heard . |
| 25 | In addition the set includes the Fairy 's Kiss Divertimento , a substantial Petrushka Suite with just about the only really convincing performance I have ever heard of Stravinsky 's concert ending , and Prokofiev 's Scythian Suite and Le Pas d'Acier . |
| 26 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |
| 27 | Quite simply , this is one of the finest recordings of the piano concerto repertoire that I have ever heard ; it has depth , clarity and a real sense of perspective . |
| 28 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 29 | In Balakirev 's Islamey , for instance , he allows the beautiful second subject to sing out , slower and more meaningful , than I have ever heard it before , while his deadly accuracy and exquisite pianissimos produce a stillness in Liszt 's Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este that is rare indeed for such a fast moving piece . |
| 30 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |