Example sentences of "ever been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 2 | THERE has seldom if ever been such a sickening and depressing sight as Secretary of State Peter Brooke 's performance at Westminster yesterday . |
| 3 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 4 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 5 | ‘ There she is ! ’ cried her father , as if there had ever been any doubt about her arrival . |
| 6 | Have there ever been any arguments or disputes with them ? |
| 7 | If there had ever been any chance that the Whigs might lose the support of the great mass of the population , the poor , the unpropertied , the emergent working class , that possibility had now gone . |
| 8 | He might add that , if there had ever been any prospect that the class war would provide its movement , that prospect had patently disappeared except , ironically , in those eastern European countries bound to submit to Russian supervision . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not as if she 's ever been any different , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 11 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
| 12 | Has there ever been any trouble down in the Pleck itself on match days ? |
| 13 | Have there ever been any fire ladies , you 've got firemen ? |
| 14 | But has there ever been any effort to by management or by anyone at all to change you and say , Okay you 've proved you can sing let's update it let's get a faster beat anybody ever said that to you ? |