Example sentences of "[verb] ever [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 2 | Well if you think about it it 's the only principle that America has ever gone to war over . |
| 3 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 4 | But I wonder if Harry has ever listened to Schumann ? she thought . |
| 5 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 6 | Not one piece of evidence has ever come to light to suggest that red kites attack live sheep or lambs . |
| 7 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 8 | It was the first time she 'd ever spoken to Aunt Sarah and come away with this feeling of no comfort , no help , weighing her down as if the big brass door stop from the porch had got lodged inside her . |
| 9 | So our problem is understanding why it should have ever occurred to God that we needed redeeming , saving , restoring , in such a radical way . |
| 10 | This was the closest Neil had ever come to Wembley and on the way home that night he came to the conclusion that this was the closest he would ever come in his entire life . |
| 11 | Coffin wondered what a defence counsel would have made of that lack if the case had ever come to trial . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 13 | Although some students have a good grasp of colloquial language , few have ever got to grips with the concept of register . |
| 14 | The Kensington Hilton was enormous , quite the biggest place I have ever encountered to date . |