I ever have before vs I have ever before

Some examples from the web:

• I'm thinking with more speed and clarity than I ever have before, and I'm still only able to absorb a fraction of this.
• And I pushed myself harder than I ever have before!
• It's like no infection I have ever seen before.
• You know, this city is unlike anything I have ever seen before.
• There is more evil around us here than I have ever encountered before.
• Long arrays of big figures that I haven't ever seen before.
• Dad and I spent more time together planning this wedding than we ever have before.
• This is unlike anything that I ever felt before.
• You made me better than I ever was before.
• You have to go further into her mind than you ever have before.
• Sure, it's more work than I ever had before, but with my son, I have a better reason to work than I ever had before.
• But when I stabbed him, I felt more alive than I ever had before.
• So it will be the last thing I ever read before I die.
• And if I ever doubted before, I don't now.
• Would I be more noticed than I ever was before
• This is the last thing I ever stole before joining the Academy.
• But it's hard for me to believe that I ever existed before.
• Of course, that's six dollars more than I ever paid before.
• Feel life more than I ever felt it before.
• I evaluated her for months before I ever acknowledged her.

Some examples from the web:

• It's like no infection I have ever seen before.
• You know, this city is unlike anything I have ever seen before.
• There is more evil around us here than I have ever encountered before.
• Long arrays of big figures that I haven't ever seen before.
• Captain Jackson, I'm not sure I have ever been sent for before now.
• You know, I don't think I have ever seen molded underwear before.
• I'm thinking with more speed and clarity than I ever have before, and I'm still only able to absorb a fraction of this.
• Have I ever met you before?
• And I pushed myself harder than I ever have before!
• Finally, delivering improvements in financial market regulation and meeting the goals of the Ecofin roadmap is, as I have already stressed, more urgent than ever before.
• You have brought this Parliament closer to reforms than ever before and I have no doubt that as a result of your work we will succeed in reforming this House.
• Finally, delivering improvements in financial-market regulation and meeting the goals of the ECOFIN road map is, as I have already stressed, more urgent than ever before.
• I need you, Oracle of Gaia, more than ever before.
• For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
• I am closer than ever before.
• I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
• I'll be more powerful than ever before.
• Well, I find that more than ever before science agrees with the Scriptures.
• I talked to Mr Evers before he went home.
• I myself, since I I have been connected to the Internet and have started e-mailing people all over the world, have read and written more than ever before.