Sentence examples for had ever failed from inspiring English sources
When Science published a news item about the success, Motojima wrote to say that it was unfair to imply that the Japanese manufacturers had ever failed.
Confusion marks almost everything he does: "I was fording a deep-sea cavern lined by the remains of knowledge and by all the ideas I had ever failed to grasp.
It was the first time that England had ever failed to score at a game at the new Wembley since it opened its doors three years ago and given that they have played Germany and Brazil here, that says something about how the night unfolded.
For a while, as the great Thanksgiving storm of 2013 scotched plans for a Water Taxi tour, my A train idled infuriatingly at Canal Street and the maps function on my phone inexplicably refused to, well, function, the All Blacks were in danger of becoming the greatest sports team I had ever failed to meet.
The Joint Chiefs agreed that there was "little evidence that General MacArthur had ever failed to carry out a direct order of the Joint Chiefs, or acted in opposition to an order".
As you can imagine, I was over the moon when my throat muscles were finally strong enough to pass the infamous swallowing test -- a test which I had previously failed miserably three times (yes, yes, the first test I had ever failed in my entire life).
