Example sentences of "i [verb] ever [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 2 | It was the biggest crowd I 'd ever played in front of . |
| 3 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 4 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 5 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 6 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 7 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 8 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 9 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 10 | She was the loveliest girl that I 'd ever seen in my life , and her voice was like music . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 12 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 13 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to lie on my bed all day thinking about every bloody meal I 'd ever had in my life . |
| 15 | It was the first time I 'd ever thought of the baby as " he " . |
| 16 | It was the most embarrassing thing I 'd ever experienced in my life — and in front of Peter . |
| 17 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 18 | Not that I had ever believed in the heart marching ahead alone . |
| 19 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 20 | She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top . |
| 21 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 22 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 23 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 24 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 25 | It was the first time I had ever heard of a savant with a linguistic ability . |
| 26 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |
| 27 | I do n't think I had ever run in such marvellous conditions . |
| 28 | There were more living things than I had ever dreamt of ! |
| 29 | At times I wondered why I had ever embarked upon my personal research study . |
| 30 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |