Example sentences of "had ever be " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if it had ever been there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rachel was kinder and gentler towards her than she had ever been before ; but she also required Phoebe to take responsibility for the baby , to be a good mother , to take heed for the morrow . |
| 5 | Running the film group for ICI gave Haslam particular pleasure because it was the first time he had ever been fully in charge of a business , which he found very challenging . |
| 6 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 7 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 8 | Nothing like them had ever been seen in Stowerton , nor , for that matter , Nurse Rose believed , in London . |
| 9 | The twenty-four were tried by a court of law in the proper way , but the black community and the police began a dialogue that led to far better relations between the two than there had ever been before . |
| 10 | She was famous the world over , in a way that no member of the Royal Family , not even any Hollywood legend , had ever been . |
| 11 | It was the first time that such an offer had ever been made ; initially , he was loath to put his sketches on public display — but he was also flattered . |
| 12 | Nothing of its kind had ever been done before , and it could have blown up in his face . |
| 13 | No male member of the Royal family had ever been directly involved with the hospital before , but she feels strongly that when children are in hospital it is the parents ' problem , not just the mother 's , and so the request was specifically for them both to be patrons . |
| 14 | None of us had ever been here before and we were all living together in one flat , which we called Pig Mansions , in Earls Court . |
| 15 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 16 | Dawson and Slooten discovered that these nylon monofilament gill-nets , up to 3000 metres ( 9750 feet ) in length , were responsible for the deaths of far more dolphins than had ever been officially reported , and that the local dolphin population was in fact declining rapidly . |
| 17 | This was the first time that the health service had ever been asked to make staff economies . |
| 18 | With the sale of the manor off her mind , Jane set the wheels in motion to find somewhere small to live , and treated herself to many walks with the dogs — more carefree , perhaps , than she had ever been . |
| 19 | She wondered if this coat had ever been on a train before , when it had belonged to the other child . |
| 20 | The bonds linking the brothers ended up stronger than they had ever been . |
| 21 | These policies even contemplated the nationalization of industry , in rather more detail than had ever been considered by the Labour Party . |
| 22 | And then , in January , Klaus Fuchs was arrested and revealed that , thanks to him , the Russians knew far more than had ever been suspected . |
| 23 | I asked if she had ever been to hear Billy Graham ; a bit unlikely I thought . |
| 24 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 25 | He left behind him a baby daughter , a huge political and religious crisis , and a power-struggle far more savage than had ever been experienced before , which began literally at the death-bed . |
| 26 | And to emphasise the point that flies caused more death than ‘ all the wars there had ever been ’ , there was a serious campaign to get it renamed the ‘ typhoid fly ’ or even the ‘ filth fly ’ . |
| 27 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 28 | Soon he was exploring parts he felt no-one had ever been in before . |
| 29 | Also , we were closer than we had ever been . |
| 30 | The first was the fact that no full-size commercial reactor had ever been totally decommissioned anywhere in the world to date . |