Example sentences of "or ever " in BNC.
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1 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
2 | This idea has often been ridiculed by anthropologists who point out that there is no record or suggestion that there ever was , or ever could be , a stage of total sharing and total freedom of access by everybody at any time to anything . |
3 | I do n't think I 'm fully formed or ever will be , but my basic creative journey is now self-perpetuating . ’ |
4 | The Bourne Identity is the best book I 've read or ever will read . |
5 | I thought , ‘ If your own mother does n't love you then no one loves you — or ever will . ’ |
6 | An actor remembers the ‘ feel ’ of all the feelings he ever felt or ever sensed in others . |
7 | Now or ever . ’ |
8 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
9 | PI Associates , sole manufacturers of PolyPads , wish it to be known that Bridlesuite of Lanarkshire have never been supplied with or ever stocked genuine PolyPads . |
10 | This means that the board will not have to reprocess as soon as in the past ‘ or ever at all ’ . |
11 | The all-embracing claim , that all that has happened , or ever will happen is attributable to such a ‘ god ’ , acting in mankind 's interest , has done much to alienate thoughtful people from all the proffered religions of the past . |
12 | Despite the supposed safe-guard of a detailed District Plan , development of housing is presumed to be either totally out of control or else subject to inconsistent or ever changing planning policies . |
13 | I ca n't recognize you , now or ever . |
14 | I do not intend , now or ever , to become involved in any controversy about downwind turns , but when making downwind turns with a helicopter you should ensure that your groundspeed downwind is faster than the wind speed ( Fig. 5.12 ) . |
15 | It was without doubt the most beautiful thing she had ever owned , or ever would . |
16 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
17 | No disaster struck then , or ever . |
18 | Perhaps it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear not only that all knowledge of selling me a coffin was denied but even that they were now , or ever had been , coffin-manufacturers . |
19 | The Reading Festival of 1988 was the worst music-related experience I have ever had , or ever expect to have . |
20 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
21 | I can not tell you everything about roses , because I do n't know it all — nobody does , or ever will . |
22 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
23 | An evening of black humour , surrealist monologues and mixed media performance including Notes on Noise by Oscar McLennon and Or Ever What Leaving Was by Anne Seagrave . |
24 | Despite these strategies , applied in both depressed and prosperous Britain , it can not be argued that there is or ever has been a clearly defined national population-distribution policy in the UK . |
25 | It is unlikely that anyone could be sentimental about such places — or ever quite unlock their hold on a distant stratum of the imagination . |
26 | Or ever . |
27 | No price was in fact paid or ever intended to be paid . |
28 | Although he 'd written that I was not a fantasy for him , he had dreamed me , written me , into a woman far less flawed than I am , or ever could be . |
29 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
30 | But if we begin with the assumption , say , that there is at least one star in the heavens that never has been , or ever will be , discovered or talked about , then evidently no meaningful let alone true singular proposition can be produced in support of such an assumption , for no such object can be named . |