Example sentences of "ever [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It only ever happened at night . |
| 3 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 4 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 5 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 6 | 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 . |