Example sentences of "[that] ever be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was how things worked , just about every war veteran that ever was would ‘ inevitably ’ end up homeless because of their past . |
| 2 | Winstanley , however , had full confidence and proclaimed his greatest wish was to be upon the rock during ‘ … the greatest storm that ever was ’ . |
| 3 | As John Netherwood , who was in charge of publicity and sponsorship in 1964 , said : ‘ To get sponsors you have to tell everybody that it is going to be the biggest event that ever was , otherwise they wo n't put their money in . ’ |
| 4 | I saw her on only one day twenty-two years ago : I have thought of her every day since ; not as a lover of course ( for years past ) but as a spirit apart , unlike anyone else that ever was … |
| 5 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 6 | As for keyboard music , ‘ the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls ’ , the famous Parthenia containing 21 short preludes and dances by Byrd , Bull , and Gibbons , appeared only in late 1612 |
| 7 | It was thought that " if the certaine or standing water had been drained , that all the 7 works would conic into one , and that then it would be the best worke that ever was in these parts . " |
| 8 | ‘ The best goose that ever was , ’ approved Oliver gravely after they had finished , catching Auguste 's eye as he watched anxiously from his vantage point . |
| 9 | Which bore the best apples that ever were seen ; |
| 10 | By all the gods that ever were , that bitch will pay for this ! ’ |
| 11 | But in her I see the carrier of the seed of all the wonder-rabbis that ever were : not the great Akiba nor Hillel nor Hananiah , not all the sages of Sura , Safed and Sefarad , could perpetuate the tribe if they lay with the earth 's fairest , wisest , most fertile alien women : Jewishness comes only through the mother . |