Example sentences of "[vb -s] ever [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information . |
| 2 | The chairman of its Scottish council , Dr Mac Armstrong , told a press conference in Edinburgh : ‘ This should be one of the most exciting enterprises the NHS has ever engaged in but the enthusiasm for this initiative — which is there — may turn to scepticism because of the Government 's commitment to it . ’ |
| 3 | The Professional Aviation Jet Prop DC-3 from the Republic of South Africa ( marking the first time the RSA has ever displayed an aircraft at Farnborough ) employs the Schafer/Aero Modifications International design ( first flown in the US in August 1986 ) and they have been ‘ building ’ examples since 1991 . |
| 4 | Nobody except Masefield has ever matched the precision , the pictorial strength and intensity of Conrad 's descriptions of storm and calm , of men working or at ease , contending or submitting . |
| 5 | No one has ever matched Mozart in this kind of music . |
| 6 | ‘ We are about to stand into an ocean where no ship has ever sailed before , ’ Magellan is said to have cried ( though it has to be reiterated that there is no hard evidence that he dit so ) . |
| 7 | Anyone who has ever sailed with Phil Andrews will agree that there is never a dull moment or lack of sea time , and my time with him on Valiant was certainly full of those ingredients . |
| 8 | That maxim , one could say , is the core of The Lord of the Rings , and it is reinforced from the start by all that Gandalf says about the way Ring-bearers fade , regardless of all their ‘ strength ’ or ‘ good purpose ’ , and further by his violent refusal to take the Ring himself : His renunciation makes sense in an age which has seen many pigs become farmers ; no reviewer has ever balked at this basic opening move of Tolkien 's . |
| 9 | It has been exploited to a degree by all human beings to hurt and control each other , and has affected the lives of everyone that has ever lived . |
| 10 | The largest of the filter-feeders is , however , far from static and is indeed the biggest animal that has ever lived — the blue whale . |
| 11 | No one else has ever lived here . |
| 12 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 13 | This was established as long ago as the year 1802 by William Herschel , one of the greatest observers who has ever lived . |
| 14 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 15 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |
| 16 | ‘ The merit of Mr. Audubon 's work yields only to the size of his book , ’ he said , ‘ while Mr. Gould 's work on the Birds of Europe , inferior in size to that of Mr. Audubon 's , is the most beautiful work on Ornithology that has ever appeared in this or any other country . ’ |
| 17 | This sort of plot is , in a way , the ultimate temptation to any writer who has ever toyed with producing detective fiction . |
| 18 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 19 | At least my father tried to get out of the trap , but I doubt if Jones has ever struggled , even with his conscience . |
| 20 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 21 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 22 | The final ‘ sting ’ , as Barbara emerges from the lift and screams in terror at the approach of … something , stands as one of the finest cliff-hangers any serial has ever boasted . |
| 23 | In one such performance , James Luna promises to combine ‘ Indian mythology , Christian evangelism , and psychoanalysis to create a double-edged interpretation that has ‘ something for everyone who has ever believed in the romantic vision of the American Indian and bought into the guilt-complex of American history ’ ’ ’ . |
| 24 | All this activity is very much to the good , since no conductor has ever possessed so much insight into Dvořák 's music as Talich . |
| 25 | An authentic reconstruction of the most terrible nights this country has ever endured — hear the sounds — smell the acrid burning bombed street — experience a British town under siege . |
| 26 | Experience the most terrible nights this country has ever endured , smell the acrid burning in a bombed street , experiencing a British town under siege . |
| 27 | The one-night stand is an obvious high-risk adventure and the question should be asked , ‘ Do I find myself in bed with this person because I am the most attractive/ vivacious/brawny/amusing person that he/she has ever met or , if that is not true , what was he/she doing last night , and the night before , and the night before ? |
| 28 | He rings back to inform me that I 'm the rudest person he has ever met . |
| 29 | It was the first time Yusupov has ever beaten Karpov , and leaves the scores level with three games left to play . |
| 30 | No one has ever discovered the secret recipe for army tea . |