Example sentences of "[verb] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was climbing ever higher , day by day . |
| 2 | When we took off again we found ourselves climbing ever more steeply through jungled mountains . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Nothing I say ever comes out like I want it to . |
| 6 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
| 7 | It has continued in fits and starts ever since . |
| 8 | The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner . |
| 9 | Others have vanished , like the rich abbey of St Jean d'Angely where the head of St John the Baptist had been venerated ever since its miraculous discovery in the mid-eleventh century . |
| 10 | At the same time , only 11 boards ( 8 CSE and 3 GCE ) reported ever having received requests for information from employers . |
| 11 | Interestingly , in the survey referred to earlier twice as many Americans as Japanese reported ever having dreamed of being inappropriately dressed , or being nude . |
| 12 | In the study by Holly et al 18% of female cases and 14% of controls reported ever having had anal intercourse . |
| 13 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 14 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 15 | The article leads you to wonder about her religious faith , if she has one , and about where it stands in relation to the outlook of the editor of Commentary , author of a book about his ambitions for worldly success : Making it must be the least pious book that has ever been written . |
| 16 | As will be seen in the remaining chapters , a particular form of Irish catholicism known as monopoly catholicism has assisted in the concrete success of the mix of the beliefs with economic beliefs in capitalism , ownership of land , and inheritance , helping to bring the elements to an explicit formulation in the 1937 Irish constitution , which has ever since shown considerable resistance to reformulation . |
| 17 | However , no evidence favouring such a contention has ever been produced . |
| 18 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |
| 19 | Everything a pocket has ever carried in its time . |
| 20 | Anyone who has ever tried to grow peaches outdoors will be familiar with ‘ Taphrina deformans ’ , the fungus which causes peach leaf curl disease . |
| 21 | And I bet no man has ever appreciated the lava flow of sensuality so near your ice-perfect surface . |
| 22 | But no one else has ever even wound up that chain . |
| 23 | For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally . |
| 24 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 25 | Even the bullnose chisel of the stonecarver found its reflection in the woodcarver 's kit , though no manufacturer to my knowledge has ever marketed this variation . |
| 26 | Perhaps no ballet has ever made the same impact on dancers and audience as Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring . |
| 27 | Anyone who has ever tried chiselling out a channel in a wall to accommodate electrical conduit or other piping will appreciate this useful accessory from Wolfcraft . |
| 28 | What no one , as far as I know , has ever done is to show whether there is any space , weight , efficiency or cost saving that results from assembling all the windings onto one core . |
| 29 | But no one has ever thought that Yeats 's temperament was Virgilian , and characteristically , in this momentous book of verse and prose mixed , he glimpsed Virgil momentarily only through the spectacles of — of all unlikely people — Paul Verlaine . |
| 30 | NEIL KINNOCK 'S speech at the Labour Party conference tomorrow will be the most important he has ever made . |