Example sentences of "[adv] ever [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I was not fortunate enough ever to see him in the flesh , I suggest that his picture should be tattooed on the brain of every aspiring judge . |
| 2 | Some jokes are so awful that you should only ever tell them while you 're wearing a decent pair of trainers . |
| 3 | She had only ever visited his office once before — as an awestruck teenager in the company of her stepfather — but she remembered precisely where it was . |
| 4 | But surely for the early moderns also : terminology apart , did not nosce teipsum only ever mean something like that ? |
| 5 | Pursuing this theory , we attributed to him some great and unhappy love , and then surmised that he had only ever confessed it to Madame , perhaps in the days of his terrible drunkenness . |
| 6 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 7 | She married and he only ever saw her once again , yet declared : ‘ She was really , really , the only being in the world who could have given me peace and rest . ’ |
| 8 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 9 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd only ever given him pills before , and I 'm not medically trained , but it 's surprising how quickly you get used to it . |
| 11 | He has only ever given me encouragement and support . ’ |
| 12 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 13 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 15 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 16 | And while she always spent a great deal of time and money on their Christmas presents , they only ever sent her a packet of scented drawer liners or a box of soap . |
| 17 | The Cult only ever had one truly great riff of their own — ‘ She Sells Sanctuary ’ — but on ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Sonic Temple ’ they at least had the intelligence to plunder the repertoires of The Stones and Zeppelin , here , they sound like they 've been dipping into a library of unreleased Uriah Heep doodlings … uninspired , to say the least . |
| 18 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 19 | I mean I think we 've only ever met him once since we 've been here , he 's our head of department , its an issue that affects not just you as the bo as the head of department |
| 20 | ‘ I only ever met one who got it right ’ , he says , ‘ and he was an Abo called Albert out of Hermannsburg . |
| 21 | Moral — only ever remove one at a time so that you can see which way that have to be returned . |
| 22 | I only ever wanted him to grow up to become a pro-ball player . |
| 23 | If I only ever give you one piece of advice in life — which is highly likely on the face of it — it 's stay away from that man . |
| 24 | I 'm quite interested to see how I get on with her actually cos I 've only ever known her in the context of Tom and Darrel really . |
| 25 | You do n't often see photos of this I 've only ever found one , here 's one , or I did find one . |
| 26 | ‘ You only ever touch me when you want sex , ’ said Elinor . |
| 27 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 28 | Lizzy had adored her father and he had only ever let her down . |
| 29 | I was quite tough with them and , though I 've only ever smacked them once — with the stick end of a feather duster which , since reading Mommie Dearest , they 've turned into a wire coat-hanger — I would often destroy them with tongue-lashings that still twist my conscience today . |
| 30 | I 've got a few awards over the years , and I ca n't quite remember what some of them were given for , but I 've only ever got one for writing and that 's the one I would n't want to give away . |