Example sentences of "ever [verb] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mining communities , the dock areas , Liverpool , all these people the only crime , the only crime they 've ever committed is to stand up for their rights . |
| 2 | What no one , as far as I know , has ever done is to show whether there is any space , weight , efficiency or cost saving that results from assembling all the windings onto one core . |
| 3 | ‘ Like hell he would n't — all he 's ever wanted is to get you back ! ’ |
| 4 | The best thing Tina Turner 's management ever did was to find the songs for her Private Dancer album . |
| 5 | I know , I mean er I mean yeah I 've got used to her sort of like criticizing everything and everyone in sight cos I mean that 's all she ever does is to criticize and complain . |
| 6 | The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before . |
| 7 | The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully . |
| 8 | Jesus , all I ever wanted was to love you , you to love me . ’ |