Example sentences of "ever [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The largest fixed-rate offering ever witnessed in the Eurobond market , a $1.5bn five-year deal announced on Friday for Italy , which used the new money-making formula , provides disturbing evidence however that excessive competition , born of over-capacity , could yet ruin the latest attempts at restoring profitability to the market . |
2 | With a certain amount of understatement the Army missionary magazine All the World reported , " It was one of the most remarkable memorial services ever witnessed in the old " Rink " . " |
3 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
4 | ‘ Ever heard of the name McCloy , Mr Bardsley ? ’ |
5 | Ever heard of the pill ? |
6 | But no one there had ever heard of the Arektenje area of Jaffa where the newly married Damiani had bought his home . |
7 | Have you ever heard of the Battle of Fredericksburg , Father ? ’ |
8 | UNLESS you live in their village , town or just around the corner from one , it is unlikely you have ever heard of the six people on this page . |
9 | ‘ Anyone ever heard of the word ‘ kalliste ’ ? ’ |
10 | ‘ Have you ever heard of the term , ‘ diversion ’ ? ’ |
11 | Has n't Mr Brittlebrain ever heard of the subjunctive ? |
12 | ‘ Have you ever heard of the Slavonic banquet ? ’ she said . |
13 | Have you ever heard of the term , man hours ? |
14 | ‘ Have you ever heard of the Devenish case ? ’ |
15 | Have you ever heard of the parson of Emminster , old Mr Clare ? |
16 | ‘ Ever heard of the Trojan horse , Bicker ? ’ |
17 | ‘ How many of these girls who wear this colour have ever heard of the Incas of Peru ? ’ |
18 | Although a pioneer line , very little is ever heard of the Volks Electric Railway . |
19 | I mean that 's what cut straight the way across that it was , it was all and my aunt she used to live by All Saints West Bromwich , we never used , we never went to see them we used to walk it down the road past the Boars Head onto the Navigation Inn , and up by the Sandlow and she used to live opposite er All Saints Church in West Bromwich , and erm coming back we should come back round midnight you know and er have you ever heard of the Whirly Gang ? |
20 | Ever heard of the big warehouse ? |
21 | But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show . |
22 | At the Harris , Harris and Overdene Christmas party three years ago he had made what some considered to be the funniest impromptu speech anyone had ever heard inside the office . |
23 | ‘ There 's a Takamine acoustic , which is not the best acoustic I 've ever heard in the studio , but okay , and a Fender Jaguar and a Precision bass . |
24 | ‘ Whom should I say is calling ? ’ the man said in an accent she had only ever heard in the movies . |
25 | House of Representatives Speaker Thomas S. Foley , who earlier in the day had urged conciliation between Congress and the President , angrily characterized Bush 's remarks as " the most partisan speech I have ever heard in the guise of a presidential address " . |
26 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
27 | The talks , aimed at tackling practical regional matters such as water-sharing , economic development and the environment , brought together the broadest gathering of Arab states ever to sit at the same table with Israel . |
28 | Unfortunately for the Dwarfs and for the Empire the reigning Emperor was Dieter IV , the Elector Count of Stirland , perhaps the most ineffective and self serving individual ever to sit upon the Imperial throne . |
29 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
30 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |