Example sentences of "ever [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far worse than anything I ever met in the south . |
| 2 | He had been one of the most influential members of Hong Kong 's financial community and was one of the most prominent figures ever tried in the colony . |
| 3 | That had never , ever happened in the whole history of the Corporation . |
| 4 | He said if anything bad ever happened in the school , it was certain to be his daughter who did it . |
| 5 | Now , although no bombs ever fell in the country district where they lived , from time to time the air raid warning sirens would sound and Sylvia 's mother would take her baby and make her way to the shelter at the bottom of the garden , remaining there until she heard the ‘ all-clear ’ . |
| 6 | ever looked in the attic of the masonic hall ? |
| 7 | The fall of the Labour government in 1931 and MacDonald 's defection to lead an essentially Conservative National Government , marked the lowest point ever reached in the morale of the Labour Party . |
| 8 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 11 | Moral reform , from the 1870s , came close to the centre of political debate — much more so than structural social reform ever did in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
| 13 | Every skill I ever learned in the Art of Coarse Acting I learned in that sweaty cloakroom before Double Hockey . |
| 14 | He was the finest poet that ever wrote in the English language . |
| 15 | The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps I should start with one of the most colourful characters that we ever had in the Pathfinder Force — unhappily now dead — Tommy Blair of No 83 Squadron . |
| 17 | As a rule , nobody ever sat in the parlour ; it was kept for show rather than for use , like the clock on the mantelpiece , under its glass dome . |