Example sentences of "they had ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 2 | Disappointment that they were losing the best American M D they had ever had , after less than one year , and alarm in the knowledge that his demotion almost certainly meant the end of the recovery and expansion plans , and possibly the end of vehicle manufacture in the UK . |
| 3 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 4 | The bonds linking the brothers ended up stronger than they had ever been . |
| 5 | This was the plan which , according to Abrams , was dismissed by the CIA and the Defense Department as ‘ the craziest idea they had ever heard ; totally implausible and not-doable ’ . |
| 6 | It was the most impressive catapult they had ever seen and were proud of it . |
| 7 | Only that was nonsense , they would not be here , they would be wherever Randolph Henry Ash had put them , if they had ever been written . |
| 8 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was the first letter they had ever received from him . |
| 11 | In the first place people developed a greater objectiveness than they had ever done while they were living in it . |
| 12 | Certainly not everybody in the camp found pleasure in books or music or poetry or nature but many people who normally would never have had anything to do with such things were forced by their environment to look into them and found there greater wealth than they had ever known before . |
| 13 | It was the first motor car they had ever seen . |
| 14 | Nowadays , Girls would deny that they had ever even conversed with a man working backstage . |
| 15 | At first glance they realised that the specimen differed from any meteorites they had ever seen . |
| 16 | Try the Saloon , ’ advised Susan , and they forthwith entered the dingiest and most depressing room they had ever been inside . |
| 17 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 18 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 19 | They were amazed and delighted to find on that isolated junction the tiniest pub they had ever encountered , tucked away in a bend in the empty road . |
| 20 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 21 | ‘ Our area manager said there had been more reaction to the closing of this post office than they had ever known , ’ Mr. Hover told the Herald . |
| 22 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 23 | It was the first time they had ever spoken of the affection they felt . |
| 24 | It was the longest day they had ever known . |
| 25 | We also asked people if they had ever had any problems over credit use , apart from the most recent purchase . |
| 26 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 27 | It was the worst row they had ever had . |
| 28 | That night the BBC ran the obituary twice — the first time they had ever done so for anyone , and the first television obituary to consist of a filmed interview with the deceased . |
| 29 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 30 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |