Example sentences of "had ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 2 | And Goldberg , on his pad : If the fool had ever bothered to read what I have written on the subject in the essay on aura and the hour he would not have flailed about as he does here . |
| 3 | as if it had ever been there . |
| 4 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 5 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 6 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 7 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 8 | Smoke curled , wine flowed , and Lucy put her fabulous legs on a chair , smoking too , the most relaxed thing Jay had ever seen her do . |
| 9 | But no one had ever moved her like Lucy . |
| 10 | Then he moves in , for example to reveal that the young hero-murderer , once the deed was done , had a completely new experience ‘ of infinite loneliness and estrangement ’ ; and that this experience ‘ was most agonising in that it was a sensation rather than knowledge or intellectual understanding , a direct sensation , the most painful sensation he had ever experienced in his life . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Springer joined the party 25 years ago , and admitted that this era could be the most difficult he had ever lived through . |
| 12 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 13 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 14 | Oh , yes ? ' ) asking him whether he had ever thought of going round the world in 80 days . |
| 15 | He denied angrily that he had ever sought compensation of up to £1m ‘ although this has been a very expensive operation ’ , adding : ‘ I could have proceeded had I been totally selfish for there were several options on the table , financially very attractive . ’ |
| 16 | He ( Anderson ) played on a sexual stereotype , saying she was young , black , ‘ the best sex he had ever had ’ — anything that could be used as an excuse . ’ |
| 17 | But what socialist governments , in which countries , had ever worked ? |
| 18 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 19 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 20 | But I was beginning to wonder if Ipsarion had ever been climbed by uncloven feet , a suspicion intensified by studying the maps available in the local shops . |
| 21 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 22 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 23 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 24 | We are not aware that Macmillan had ever heard of Bethune-Baker . |
| 25 | Curzon was wont to complain , and with justice , that Chamberiain ‘ forgot all about India when he launched his scheme ’ , and whimsically mused on ‘ what would have become of him and us if he had ever visited India … |
| 26 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 27 | The first main feature we had ever seen . |
| 28 | No one at that time in Glasgow had ever seen anything like it outside a porn mag . |
| 29 | He was , and she forced herself to remember this with gratitude , one of the best talkers she had ever met ; funny and fast . |
| 30 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |