Example sentences of "ever [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent .
2 No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection .
3 When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it .
4 ‘ I would n't ever have been so intimate with you if I had had an obligation to someone else .
5 I realized that in fact she was absolutely determined on going , she had n't the imagination to act out this sort of scene to punish me , nor , to be fair , would she ever have been so spiteful if she had .
6 It seems likely that there was a greater abundance of water in the past , though it is unlikely ever to have been as large as the abundance of water on the Earth .
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