Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] ever have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit . |
| 2 | I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days . |
| 3 | And ran errands for her willingly and without complaint ; but no , I can not remember ever having behaved particularly lovingly . |
| 4 | I can not remember ever having behaved particularly lovingly . ) |
| 5 | Marie could not remember ever having been inside a hospital before . |
| 6 | He could not remember ever having hit every green in regulation or better . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , ’ said a small , fat man in the front row whom I could not remember ever having seen before . |
| 8 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 9 | And although Hugh did not recall ever having seen him before he answered contentedly . |
| 10 | When the ombudsman reported on the case he said : ‘ I can not recall ever having encountered such a manifest and deplorable lack of regard by management for the welfare of a hospital inpatient . ’ |
| 11 | It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’ |
| 12 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |
| 13 | The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries . |
| 14 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 15 | In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found . |
| 16 | Francis could n't remember ever having seen anyone so angry . |
| 17 | I happened to meet a former girlfriend while out for a constitutional among these perfumed hills and blow me if ; much to her chagrin , I could n't remember ever having slid between the sheets with her . |
| 18 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 19 | She could n't remember ever having met anyone with quite this capacity for rousing her to anger , she thought abstractedly . |
| 20 | I could n't remember ever having dapped eyes on her before . |
| 21 | I 'm five-foot six and I 'll likely run to fat later on because Ma says I 'm the image of my grandfather , whom I ca n't remember ever having seen . |
| 22 | I 've also become so senile as to be publicly defending Georgie Pissed , Maradona , and Giggs : -[ I do n't remember ever having having it . |
| 23 | Yevgeniy does n't claim ever to have hooked a whopper , but in the good old days , he said , the living was easy , the fish popped out of the ice . |
| 24 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |