Example sentences of "[vb infin] ever have " in BNC.

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1 Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit .
2 Please , let it not be some man she had slept with and now could not even remember ever having seen before in her life .
3 I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days .
4 And ran errands for her willingly and without complaint ; but no , I can not remember ever having behaved particularly lovingly .
5 I can not remember ever having behaved particularly lovingly . )
6 He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years .
7 Marie could not remember ever having been inside a hospital before .
8 He could not remember ever having hit every green in regulation or better .
9 In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found .
10 Francis could n't remember ever having seen anyone so angry .
11 I happened to meet a former girlfriend while out for a constitutional among these perfumed hills and blow me if ; much to her chagrin , I could n't remember ever having slid between the sheets with her .
12 ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ?
13 She could n't remember ever having met anyone with quite this capacity for rousing her to anger , she thought abstractedly .
14 Clare was more brittle and self-contained than Caro could remember ever having seen her .
15 I could n't remember ever having dapped eyes on her before .
16 ‘ Right , ’ said a small , fat man in the front row whom I could not remember ever having seen before .
17 I 'm five-foot six and I 'll likely run to fat later on because Ma says I 'm the image of my grandfather , whom I ca n't remember ever having seen .
18 I 've also become so senile as to be publicly defending Georgie Pissed , Maradona , and Giggs : -[ I do n't remember ever having having it .
19 Yevgeniy does n't claim ever to have hooked a whopper , but in the good old days , he said , the living was easy , the fish popped out of the ice .
20 ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity .
21 It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles .
22 The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries .
23 Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject .
24 And although Hugh did not recall ever having seen him before he answered contentedly .
25 When the ombudsman reported on the case he said : ‘ I can not recall ever having encountered such a manifest and deplorable lack of regard by management for the welfare of a hospital inpatient . ’
26 It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’
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