Example sentences of "have [adv] ever [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Disco Di ’ has only ever existed in the minds of headline writers with an appreciation for alliteration . |
| 2 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 3 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 4 | There were no stores like the ones she could now see flashing past the cab window , fine jewellers and milliners , bookshops and department stores , their windows displaying a variety of goods Ellie had only ever seen in the pictures of second-hand magazines . |
| 5 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 6 | ‘ Whom should I say is calling ? ’ the man said in an accent she had only ever heard in the movies . |
| 7 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 8 | You read CVs relating to head chefs who have only ever worked in pubs ; CVs of head chefs well experienced in take-aways ; you read the CV of the head chef of a 350 room hotel in an inner city who is seeking employment overseas ; and you have a CV which looks quite familiar . |
| 9 | ‘ You have n't ever fought in the dark ? ’ |