Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want ever to see him . |
| 2 | ‘ I just do n't want ever to go to church again . ’ |
| 3 | I know quite a lot about his work and his reputation , and am quite proud of him , but I do n't expect ever to exchange one word with him . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't yow ever show yer face round 'ere agen , ’ they shouted after him . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't yow ever let me catch yow using that terrible stuff agen ! ’ he bawled . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't remember ever learning to swim ; it just happened , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | I never saw her , and I do n't remember ever seeing Bernard again either . |
| 8 | There was no-one else there , just a maid , whom Artemis could n't remember ever seeing before , waiting to serve tea . |
| 9 | She could n't remember ever seeing Lydia so cast down . |
| 10 | Girls mainly skipping , I do n't remember ever seeing any boys skipping . |
| 11 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 12 | In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found . |
| 13 | Francis could n't remember ever having seen anyone so angry . |
| 14 | I happened to meet a former girlfriend while out for a constitutional among these perfumed hills and blow me if ; much to her chagrin , I could n't remember ever having slid between the sheets with her . |
| 15 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 16 | She could n't remember ever having met anyone with quite this capacity for rousing her to anger , she thought abstractedly . |
| 17 | I could n't remember ever having dapped eyes on her before . |
| 18 | I 'm five-foot six and I 'll likely run to fat later on because Ma says I 'm the image of my grandfather , whom I ca n't remember ever having seen . |
| 19 | I 've also become so senile as to be publicly defending Georgie Pissed , Maradona , and Giggs : -[ I do n't remember ever having having it . |
| 20 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 21 | In fact , he could n't remember ever feeling like this . |
| 22 | I ca n't remember ever feeling so relaxed . ’ |
| 23 | She could n't remember ever doing that , not deliberately . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember ever bolting a weasel from a rabbit warren . |
| 25 | Yevgeniy does n't claim ever to have hooked a whopper , but in the good old days , he said , the living was easy , the fish popped out of the ice . |
| 26 | They were carefully guarded , as if they hid secrets he did n't intend ever to reveal to anyone . |
| 27 | I do n't recall ever seeing a big beardy climber lying down in the heather having a tantrum , or a party of Outward Bound students holding their heads and crying into their gaiters , so one is forced to conclude that I am alone in my hill hysteria . |
| 28 | They 'll put cat food , car oil and sanitary towels on screen , but I ca n't recall ever seeing tinned baby food . |
| 29 | I remember that there was terrible screaming and that blows were delivered , but for the life of me I ca n't recall ever making sense of the basic problem . |
| 30 | She could n't recall ever feeling so desperately , fiercely angry and unhappy . |