Sentence examples similar to did this ever exist from inspiring English sources

Watching Get Carter now is like reading accounts of the first westerners to cross the Gobi desert: did this world ever exist, and in such recent times?

I'm slightly ashamed to admit this, but here goes: how did I ever exist without my darling new PA?

Did it ever exist and might it exist now?

This whole "bachelor" world, with the brandy snifters and the attractive guest arriving for the night: did it ever exist?

The act of mental preparation didn't ever exist for me.

For months, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin insisted he had a Treasury report to support it, but apparently it did not ever exist.

Where are the Gandhis of today and did they ever exist?

Did it ever exist, and if it didn't were the first 30 years of his life just a big, cynical con?

Did it ever exist, and – if it didn't – were the first 30 years of his life just a big, cynical con?

Did it ever exist in our historical vocabulary until the advent of a phase of European colonial expansion in recent centuries?

When the kids leave the house, & you the eat pie they didn't know was here before they return, did the pie ever exist in the first place?