Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] have ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of many friends , whom I love and esteem , my head & heart have ever chosen you as the Friend — as the one being , in whom is involved the full & whole meaning of that sacred Title — God love you , my dear Poole ! and your faithful & most affectionate S T Coleridge |
| 2 | The noteworthy thing , considering this half.century of official recognition , is the regularity with which the multi.media library concept was hailed as a new idea and canvassed with a sense of surprised discovery , as if no library or librarian had ever considered it before . |
| 3 | No teacher or school has ever won an argument with a parent . |
| 4 | The result , according to the DEA spokesman 's sworn testimony , was a classified 350-page report , reviewed and confirmed by its sister agency , the FBI , showing that Jafaar had never been used as an informant or subsource and that no DEA agent or office had ever had any contact with him . |
| 5 | NOTHING THAT Ministry have ever recorded can prepare you for what the band are like live . |
| 6 | The history of Scottish football is scarred with dismal nights and sporting indiscipline , but neither the memory of failure nor defeat has ever extinguished the flame of fascination that flickers around the game . |
| 7 | Stretched out where they had fallen , the last three members of the once invincible Hellhounds killer pack stared sightlessly after their executioner — a far more efficient and dangerous killer than Nature had ever equipped them to be at the height of their savage power . |
| 8 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 9 | All in all there are so many pitfalls to avoid that it 's a wonder that woodwork has ever advanced beyond the hollowed out log . |
| 10 | Neither father nor mother had ever breathed a word , and my first knowledge was thrust upon me — by happening to read quite unwittingly a pamphlet — it was by Stead , exposing and giving such ghastly details of prostitution … |
| 11 | singled out by the Decree of an Inscrutable Providence from the midst of the Distinguished Multitude that Surrounded him , in the full pride of his Talents and the Perfection of his Usefulness , met with the Accident that Occasioned his Death ; which deprived England of an Illustrious Statesman and Liverpool of its Most Honoured Representative ; which changed a moment of the Noblest Exultation and Triumph that Science and Genius had ever achieved into one of Desolation and Mourning , and striking Terror into the Hearts of Assembled Thousands brought home into every Bosom the Forgotten Truth that ‘ In the Midst of Life we are in Death ’ . |