Example sentences of "[adv] did [pers pn] ever " in BNC.
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1 | Clyde , obviously a fairly tense type , confessed to feelings of hostility towards his mother : ‘ Not once did she ever tell me she loved me . ’ |
2 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
3 | Well did you ever go , what did you say |
4 | ‘ How did he ever settle ? ’ |
5 | God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ? |
6 | Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ? |
7 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
8 | But how did you ever meet them ? |
9 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
10 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
11 | Costa and Costa1 argue that word processing programs on microcomputers " have a way of transforming even computerphobes into dedicated believers of the " how did I ever live without it " variety " and , such is the difference in quality of output between documents produced on a word processor and those handwritten or typed on a conventional typewriter , that school librarians , teachers and pupils quickly become convinced of the need for and extensive uses of such programs . |
12 | But then did you ever really see your own sister objectively ? |
13 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |
14 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
15 | Why , why did I ever leave my home ? |
16 | Oh , Christ , why did I ever get into this business ? |
17 | And why Did I ever tell you , as though I were an old friend ? |
18 | Why did you ever ask ? |
19 | Since when did they ever ? |
20 | When did we ever take any notice of what the fuzz said ? |
21 | Well , when did we ever ask you , the labour and liberal vice , to come down to Westminster with us , Mr Chairman . |
22 | When did you ever give me one ? ’ |
23 | When did you ever see a student wearing that Manc gear ? |
24 | ‘ When did you ever tell me what was really going on in your head ? |
25 | ‘ When did you ever know whether Thorfinn likes or dislikes a man ? |
26 | ‘ When did you ever learn that verse from the end of the Doomsday . |
27 | ‘ When did you ever get to give Julia Roberts one ? ’ |
28 | When did you ever see even four hippies anywhere else ? |
29 | ‘ When did you ever look after anyone except yourself ? |
30 | When did you ever put me first in your life ? ’ he demanded angrily , before taking a deep breath and clearly making a determined effort to pull himself together . |