Example sentences of "[prep] ever [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We watch him trying to master the pure theory of swimming — he has no intention of ever setting foot in the water . |
| 2 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 3 | He added , ‘ the history of humankind has now confirmed that a single-party system relying exclusively on coercion and deception is incapable of ever bringing prosperity and happiness to our people . ’ |
| 4 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 5 | His rambling six-hour speech about his ‘ cases ’ to the Senate left his fellow Senators confused , bewildered and finally despairing of ever making sense of the list . |
| 6 | Since the revival of CND , many of them have thought twice about ever setting foot outside their bases . |
| 7 | He had reassuring news for his daughter , in case she was worried about ever becoming Queen after separating from husband Charles . |
| 8 | He was tall , dark and far from handsome ; she was small , chirpy and was for ever brushing Kev 's shoulders free of scurf . |
| 9 | We are given a picture of death , the death of Pip 's real chance for ever finding contentment , and he sees that it is going to be a long , hard struggle back to finding happiness in life , it is a test of Pip 's strength of character . |
| 10 | Time enough for the Fifth Dominion to destroy itself out of boredom or frustration , and prevent the Reconciliation from ever taking place . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir , it prevents the Marine from ever experiencing nausea or vertigo due to disorientation , however extreme . ’ |
| 12 | How many more died before ever reaching hospital can only be conjectured . |
| 13 | I therefore decline to don the straitjacket of those scientists ( not all ) who can only accept such facts as they reach via their own limited , analytic logic ; who tend to study the parts in ever narrowing detail but too seldom consider the whole . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're rude , you 're cynical , and I was a fool to ever make love to you . ’ |
| 15 | love you too much to ever stop love , Rastafarian now |
| 16 | A large question mark hangs over the government 's intention to ever use contract compliance . |
| 17 | Some of them have a lot of stuff , you know I do n't seem to ever get hold of the stuff me , to tables and that little Eric in there he seems to get loads of stuff |
| 18 | The RAF crews are always far too busy ferrying food to the airstrips to ever get time to visit the camps . |
| 19 | ‘ He died without ever regaining consciousness . |
| 20 | The surprising point that has occurred with regard to my own business is that other supposed chartered accountants have been preparing fully audited accounts without ever setting foot in the premises that they are conducting the audit for . |
| 21 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 22 | The N-Sure team can achieve wheat yield improvements worth £10/15 per acre to the farmer — without ever setting foot on his farm . |
| 23 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 24 | He did this without ever losing sight of the contrasts he made between steps of each sequence because these were controlled by the particular rhythm , tempo and quality of the music . |
| 25 | His career had spanned Georgian Gothick , neo-Greek , neo-Perpendicular , neo-Tudor , neo-Jacobean , Scots baronial , Italianate , Graeco-Roman , Tractarian Gothic , French Renaissance and even neo-Baroque and neo-Rococo without ever losing identity . |
| 26 | I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them . |
| 27 | This inflicted great sorrow on their families , for without burial of the flesh , the victims would become phantoms and speak to the living without ever finding rest . |
| 28 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 29 | A third party whose candidates may obtain many thousands of votes in each of the constituencies that it contests without ever coming top of the poll in any , can amass a national vote in the millions without winning a seat . |