Example sentences of "have ever come " in BNC.
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| 1 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 2 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 3 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 4 | Regardless of all the toing and froing in Christian periodicals regarding women in leadership roles , no one has ever come up with anything remotely convincing which would relieve husbands from the responsibility for the direction of their families . |
| 5 | ‘ The ultimate rock guitarist for me is Hendrix — for me , no-one else has ever come close to what he did . |
| 6 | We believe no one has ever come up with better . |
| 7 | A crystallisation of hundreds of currents , from Gaelic lyricism , personal reminiscence , folk , pop , soul , Dylan , emotion , pain , salvation and the best string arrangements of all time , ‘ Astral Weeks ’ still sounds like nothing else ever recorded ; it is a unique album whose experiments and innovations have often been imitated ( those who have tried , like Mike Scott , how had a plough through ‘ Sweet Thing ’ , have made appalling fools of themselves ) but no-one — not even Van — has ever come close to its achievements . |
| 8 | No one else has ever come . ’ |
| 9 | In 30 years no band has ever come out the system alive . |
| 10 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 11 | Not one piece of evidence has ever come to light to suggest that red kites attack live sheep or lambs . |
| 12 | A number of programs followed rapidly in PageMaker 's footprints but none of those launched for the Macintosh has ever come close to either challenging PageMaker 's lead or to matching its intuitive user interface . |
| 13 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 14 | SPIT THE PIPS , one of the most bizarre bands to have ever come out of Middlesbrough , come to Darlington tonight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After all , he was better-looking than any man he had ever come across . |
| 17 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 18 | Mary was rather difficult but she was also just about the most beautiful girl Rufus had ever come across . |
| 19 | He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear . |
| 20 | This was the most cogent view of anorexia nervosa I had ever come across . |
| 21 | Harley Street psychoanalyst Michael Whitenburgh admitted it was the most bizarre case he had ever come across . |
| 22 | And this Margaret Lacey was the most brazen strap of a child she had ever come across . |
| 23 | This was the closest Neil had ever come to Wembley and on the way home that night he came to the conclusion that this was the closest he would ever come in his entire life . |
| 24 | Time and again , that woman had shown herself to be as scheming and ruthless as any criminal-minded rogue he had ever come across ; with the exception of his good self , of course . |
| 25 | But the ship in which I had arrived in Brobdingnag was the first that had ever come near the coast . |
| 26 | She was , almost without exception , the worst cook that Pete had ever come across . |
| 27 | It was as if the boy was somehow both more and , at the same time , less human than anyone he had ever come across . |
| 28 | However , under King Henry 's harsh but effective rule , England had remained peaceful , so nothing had ever come of her father 's plans and Isabel was free to indulge her girlhood dreams in the quiet haven , shut off from the bustle and constant noise of castle life . |
| 29 | It was a particularly elusive bird — the ‘ most shy and difficult to procure ’ — that Gould had ever come across . |
| 30 | Such was the opposition to the plan for closure of a school in the Bro Dysynni area of South Meirionydd , put forward by an education authority panel , that one senior councillor , Dr William George , described the vote in the county council chamber as the ‘ most sweeping ’ he had ever come across . |