Example sentences of "have ever been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 32 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 33 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 34 | Our friendship had brought us closer than I had ever been with anyone before . |
| 35 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 36 | It was the most marvellous party Constance had ever been to . |
| 37 | It was the first funeral I had ever been to where there was genuine laughter . |
| 38 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 39 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 40 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 41 | Sylvie had come the closest she had ever been to begging . |
| 42 | Nick 's friends wrote that it was the best party they had ever been to , a truly unforgettable occasion . |
| 43 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 44 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 45 | She wondered if this coat had ever been on a train before , when it had belonged to the other child . |
| 46 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 47 | She could have had fun out there with Kelly , even though neither of them had ever been on skis before . |
| 48 | ‘ I did n't know you had ever been on the stage . ’ |
| 49 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 50 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 51 | Soon he was exploring parts he felt no-one had ever been in before . |
| 52 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |
| 53 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |
| 54 | My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life . |
| 55 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 56 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 57 | She was more frightened than she had ever been in her life , but fright gave her strength . |
| 58 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 59 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 60 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |