Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] ever [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had given birth at a time when she thought miscarriages would be all she ever knew . |
| 2 | All she ever wanted was a |
| 3 | He was seldom in the house except to eat or sleep and when he was all he ever did was yell , ‘ Get the tea . |
| 4 | A total of 363 exhibition visitors ( 99% of all respondents ) indicated whether or not they ever used the Library as a reader . |
| 5 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 6 | ‘ The most you ever bought me was a lager . ’ |
| 7 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 8 | yeah that 's the limit that , that 's the most we ever did in Wigan was n't it ? |
| 9 | And you are the first person now I ever told it to . |
| 10 | I would sometimes ride on the back to go to chapel , or shopping , and the furthest I ever went was when Uncle Tommy took me to Middleton in Teesdale to see Sir Robert Fossett 's Circus . |
| 11 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 12 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
| 14 | How I ever found my way back is a miracle , but , eventually , I touched wood again and , somehow , managed to haul myself up and over . |
| 15 | If I 'd known , ’ said Cadfael dubiously , ‘ that you were going to bring her back safely , and no great harm done , I might not have been so busy about worrying out how she ever went astray . ’ |
| 16 | Does n't know how she ever managed wi'out you . ’ |
| 17 | Miss Trunchbull possessed none of these qualities and how she ever got her present job was a mystery . |
| 18 | ‘ Can you imagine how she ever conceived Syl ? ’ |
| 19 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 20 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 21 | You never really benefit from them at bedroom sound levels anyway , but turn up the wick and you begin to wonder how you ever managed without one . |
| 22 | I 'm sure you 'll agree that once you 've read a copy , you 'll wonder how you ever managed to do without it ! |
| 23 | Moreover , when you try it out for yourself you will wonder how you ever managed without it . |
| 24 | In fact the time may come when you 'll wonder how you ever did without them . |
| 25 | With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done . |
| 26 | I said to Dave now I wonder how we ever lived without this . |
| 27 | I daresay you 're wondering how we ever came to meet — Club Mediterranée it was . |
| 28 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Jack , ‘ I ca n't think how we ever got it up . ’ |
| 29 | How they ever made any money at the Horizon factory I shall never know . |
| 30 | Thousands of people who have bought one wonder how they ever managed without it . |