Example sentences of "[adv prt] ever " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , as we shall presently see , the two great intimacies — as ever — sharply reacted with each other , strengthening the conflict , heightening the ambiguity , posing in ever more painful interjections the question , ‘ Who am I ? ’
2 A mortgage may contain a clause giving the mortgagee a power of sale , and such a power ( subject to certain conditions ) is now implied in ever mortgage made by deed .
3 Never was the enormous authority of this machine for living in ever so well expressed as in this scene of picturesque desolation .
4 We have yet to make a balanced assessment of the real price exacted from humanity for those things which all politicians promise in ever greater abundance .
5 He said to me ‘ You hardly stay in ever !
6 This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three .
7 And I joined the the engineer 's union , one Saturday night in Newark , had to go back there and they had meetings in the townhall , a room that was hired and er was er particulars taken and I 've been in ever since .
8 The reason is the enormous pressures that the Government , through the funding councils , are imposing on higher education to take in ever more numbers without at the same time being concerned about quality .
9 They interacted in ever more complex and expanding networks of economic activity and not the least input into the broadening of consumer demand came from those who were themselves employed in meeting it .
10 It might be very good at wind-surfing , or at clutching oily rags , or at walking in ever decreasing circles until it vanished .
11 Yet in practice the British seemed to dig in ever deeper .
12 Writing books for children is becoming increasingly complex , as the arbiters of the modern child 's mores — librarians , teachers and publishers — lay down ever more stringent criteria .
13 A company launched on the stock market almost exactly at the top of the market in the summer of 1987 — and which has gone steadily down ever since , as the graph illustrates .
14 Been ogling her up and down ever since she 'd entered the room .
15 Have you felt the wool of the beaver , or swan 's down ever ?
16 This meant that steering the boat was made particularly difficult , with the Atlantic swell surging up under the quarter and sending the ketch careering down ever larger mountains of water .
17 She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river .
18 And then that will just let me down ever so slightly , yeah ?
19 and would n't come down ever for .
20 The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one .
21 Naturally , I 've been thinking it over ever since poor Sarah burst into my room this morning .
22 My stomach has been turning over ever since this began .
23 That seeing you , asked us to go over ever so many time and I thought
24 Margo Rouard-Snowman Museum Graphics ( Thames and Hudson , London , 1992 ) 191pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. £24 h/b As museum budgets get tighter , museums ' desires to project themselves through ever more self-conscious logos , typefaces and carrier bags seem to grow in proportion .
25 I was given a crash course and then the necessary documents that have seen me through ever since .
26 Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures .
27 Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things .
28 I started using the technique at Wakefield and carried on ever since . ’
29 It would even have been possible for the Secretary of State to have a reserve power to insist on ever more names from which to choose .
30 It 's something we 've been working on ever since they both left Liverpool , ’ joked a smiling Kendall afterwards .
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