Example sentences of "[vb past] ever [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time she 'd ever been on board ship . |
| 2 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 3 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 4 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 5 | He asked her , smiling over the top of his glass , if she had ever been to bed with a man and when she said ‘ not exactly ’ he had burst out laughing and touched her cheek with one strong brown hand . |
| 6 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 7 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 8 | She could have had fun out there with Kelly , even though neither of them had ever been on skis before . |
| 9 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 10 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |