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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is one of the most popular things I have ever done . ’ |
| 5 | It was one of the most demanding scenes I 've ever done . ’ |
| 6 | … 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Smith called him ‘ one of the most conscientious and hard-working officers I 've ever met ’ . |
| 10 | Those that were n't instantly flattened proved to be the first genuinely air-worthy chickens I had ever seen . |
| 11 | ‘ The only real wives I have ever had are my sailing ships ’ , he is reputed to have once said . |
| 12 | That is one of the most serious threats I 've ever made . ’ |
| 13 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Which brings us to perhaps the most phenomenal yearly stats I have ever had the pleasure of analysing . |
| 16 | That rod was about afoot too short and had one of the most unforgiving actions I have ever seen . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the most remarkable quartets I have ever encountered ; I have no doubt they are destined for greatness . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The second half began with some of the most remarkable scenes I have ever witnessed at a football match . |
| 20 | I think he is one of the most balanced men I have ever met . |
| 21 | ‘ Nonsense , Devlin is one of the most remarkable men I have ever known , but even he could n't get me out of this place . ’ |
| 22 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She was one of the most curious assassins I had ever met . |
| 25 | It was one of the most curious things I had ever seen . |
| 26 | Det Chief Supt Mark Waters , head of Gwent CID , said yesterday : ‘ It is one of the most savage murders I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 27 | It was one of the most unsatisfactory whodunnits I 've ever seen . |
| 28 | He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met . |
| 29 | He was one of the few really good men I have ever met . |
| 30 | Yes , I think it 's most probably one of the most important goals I 've ever scored in my life , especially when it was last minute , now because we soaked a lot of pressure up and as I say , it 's the best time to score . |