Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] ever [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize . |
| 2 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 3 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 4 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 5 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 6 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 7 | But nobody has ever been able to decide which . |
| 8 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 9 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |