Example sentences of "ever [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has ever witnessed a ‘ meet the people ’ exercise knows it is an absurdity . |
| 2 | Have you ever heard a husband on the verge of asking for a divorce finding fault with his wife , picking a quarrel or blackening her name to others ? |
| 3 | And he said , ‘ Have you ever heard a Thin Lizzy record ? ’ |
| 4 | This instrument must be familiar to every one who has ever heard a military band . |
| 5 | Before she went back to bed , she said to me , ‘ Helen , have you ever heard a whistle in the middle of the night ? ’ |
| 6 | They say women are bitchy but have you ever heard a conversation betwe |
| 7 | Have you ever heard an inflatable go B-A-N-G ! ! ! |
| 8 | I think that 's maybe because we 're Orcadian for no matter how good we 're feeling if we go you know that yourself if you go south anywhere and you meet up with just anybody that 's ever heard an Orcadian . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody 's ever given a member of staff here flowers before , ’ he observed with a twinkle . |
| 10 | But yesterday , Susan Fey , of the CTC Trust , said , ‘ We were only ever given a target of 20 . |
| 11 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 12 | NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments . |
| 13 | He says to me , ‘ Tip , I 'm going to give you more money than anyone 's ever given a caddie before , but just look after my clubs . |
| 14 | So , in addition to the high increases in taxation that the Labour party would impose if it was ever given a chance , the community charge payer , or the council tax payer , would be ripped apart by high-spending Labour authorities , because there would be no capping . |
| 15 | Only 18 patients , including only half of the most severely affected group , whose speech carers found impossible to understand , had ever received an assessment by a speech therapist ( table V ) . |
| 16 | If Norman Rockwell had ever painted an American theatre agent the result would have been a portrait of Milton . |
| 17 | They were also asked if they had ever consulted a doctor about recurrent bowel symptoms or abdominal pain . |
| 18 | In fact , many people in Broadmoor have never been convicted of a serious crime , or indeed ever committed a criminal offence . ) |
| 19 | I do n't think I 've ever enjoyed a meal so much . |
| 20 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 21 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 22 | If Laura had ever owned a car , Anna reflected , this is how it would have looked inside , with the addition of old shoes and chocolate wrappers and squashed hats . |
| 23 | Hardly ever cracked a joke , and if he did it was bitter , like as not . |
| 24 | It is the first time a British team has ever won a dressage medal and only the second in any major international championship . |
| 25 | No teacher or school has ever won an argument with a parent . |
| 26 | The greatest shot that ever won an Open Championship was played by Arnold Palmer at Birkdale in the last round — and there 's a plaque to commemorate it . |
| 27 | ever considered a soccer safari to the States to study their promotional mentality ? |
| 28 | He was a bit proud and pushy and disturbed the group when he challenged them : ‘ Have any of you ever caught a bear with your bare hands ? ’ |
| 29 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 30 | There 's a worthless piece of paper saying that there is supposed to be an oyster enterprise , but there 's no evidence that anyone has ever caught a single oyster . " |