Example sentences of "do [pron] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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31 | Did I ever tell you about the time in the Persian Empire when- ’ |
32 | ‘ Nick — did I ever tell you the joke about the two men who wanted to lose weight ? ’ |
33 | Did I ever tell you that 's where Paul and I met ? |
34 | I was telling Stephen today the story of a did I ever tell you ? |
35 | Did I ever tell you Raymond ? |
36 | Why , why did I ever leave my home ? |
37 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
38 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
39 | Why , he thought — if one can be said to think in dreams — did I ever take this on ? |
40 | 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 . |
41 | Oh , Christ , why did I ever get into this business ? |
42 | How in the hell did I ever get into this ? |
43 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
44 | When did I ever mess your things ? " |
45 | Did I ever say anything about a demonstration ? ’ |
46 | He said : " To the best of my recollection , at no time and in no place did I ever say " break bones ' . " |
47 | ‘ Did I ever say I wanted to be buried at sea ? ’ |
48 | When did I ever ask to see the Chief Rabbit before ? " |
49 | ROBBIE Did I ever ask him to ? |
50 | 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 . |
51 | ‘ Did ye ever meet a man called Borgalini ? |
52 | Tell me , Mr O'Malley , did ye ever hear of any of those marriages turnin' out bad ? |
53 | Did you ever dance the Patronella ? |
54 | ‘ Did you ever tell William about that ? ’ |
55 | ‘ Did you ever tell anybody else about this ? ’ |
56 | ‘ When did you ever tell me what was really going on in your head ? |
57 | Did you ever travel anywhere yourselves from from at all ? . |
58 | There was laughter when Mr Carman said : ‘ Did you ever visit a flat provided for Mr Mellor in Kings Yard in Mayfair ? ’ |
59 | Did you ever conduct the Leningrad Philharmonic , the orchestra Mravinsky had for fifty years ? |
60 | ‘ Did you ever interview the American President ? ’ she asked with a slight smile . |