Example sentences of "ever [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Do you ever got to church ? |
| 3 | Mm Well you never hardly go ever got into trouble at school . |
| 4 | If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government . |
| 5 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 6 | If the matter ever came to court , the judge would estimate the amount that you would have earned , in the light of the evidence before him concerning the nature of your job . |
| 7 | ‘ If this ever came to court it would n't look good for an older woman to be seen enticing a young boy into marriage — ’ |
| 8 | used to say , that cases used to come before her court in in Rochdale , and it was an absolute disgrace that they ever came to court . |
| 9 | A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school . |
| 10 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 11 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 12 | When this was put to the Environment Trust erm they were er , unaware before that stage that there were erm may be proposals of developing that land and expressed an interest in being involved if that ever came to fruition . |
| 13 | BEFORE THE END of his mammoth production Birds of Europe and his Monograph of Toucans ever came into view , Gould began planning his next major project . |
| 14 | What ever happened to dime novels ? |
| 15 | It only ever happened at night . |
| 16 | With these you can forget all you ever heard about health care based on medical need . |
| 17 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 18 | Yup , if the music marathon ever began to flag and the 26-mile version was a non-starter , then the TV election race made for a vital diversion . |
| 19 | Mr Richter was so smitten by Mr Cliburn 's talent , and so bored by the competition ( 1958 was the last time he ever served as judge for anything ) , that he decided to give the talented American pianist the top score of 25 for everything and all the other contestants a zero for everything . |
| 20 | But if the lizards ever took to forest or crag life , the fringes would be a preadaptation to leaping and parachuting , and — perhaps — a nudge towards the evolution of gliding , independently of the modern flying lizard draco volans . |
| 21 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 22 | Only that , he says would ensure that such disputes over legal procedure were sorted out before a case ever went to trial . |
| 23 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |
| 24 | And I do n't think he ever went to problem you know , a pub fight at all . |
| 25 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 26 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 27 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 28 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 29 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 30 | Although more women than ever ran for office , there was no net change in the level of female representation . |