Example sentences of "it ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't mean that your regional accent is going to be bullied out of you , so that you are unable to use it ever again — on the contrary , your accent may in all probability be your most interesting and valuable possession . |
| 2 | Will it ever be given us to know ? |
| 3 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 4 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 5 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 6 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 7 | And if not , when will it ever happen ? |
| 8 | So was it ever thus , history the source of ominous portent , further nourishing Bobby Robson 's anxiety ? |
| 9 | Three or four sharply conflicting views about the suitability of Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Partei should it ever become vacant again . |
| 10 | That made the system look more Erastian than it ever looked before . |
| 11 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 13 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 14 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 15 | Waitress : ‘ He said if you start giving them apples without custard , where will it ever end ? ’ |
| 16 | He had needed it ever since he was a child . |
| 17 | It is sadder now than it ever was , and the magic has gone . |
| 18 | If it is so difficult to value a small piece of the environment like Twyford Down , how will it ever be possible to cost the ozone layer ? |
| 19 | Thai coups may be a thing of the past , but the army is probably in a stronger position now than it ever was . |
| 20 | He has said he is determined to remain in office until his term expires in July 1992 , but Mr Andreotti 's wobbly five-party government may find it ever harder to coexist with such a tempestuous president . |
| 21 | As for employee involvement , it is certainly greater than it ever was in the years of nationalization . |
| 22 | If people are unwilling to consider the suffering of Christ , how can it ever have power to change them ? |
| 23 | Her Dad : that door was firmly closed now ; she did n't see it ever opening again although she still watched it , hoping . |
| 24 | Was it a huge game of bluff ? was it ever intended that if the reports favoured nationalization we were to get it ? |
| 25 | There was a time , let it ever be remembered , only about 400 years ago , when our fathers were ruled over and tyrannised and when men like Calvin , Knox , Cranmer , Ridley and Latimer broke rather than bend for the Gospel and liberty . |
| 26 | The North American mink , he says , has fitted into the niche which would otherwise have been occupied by the European mink had it ever reached Britain . |
| 27 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 28 | Only under a more plausible leader would it ever have a chance , particularly during a recession . |
| 29 | I really thought it was going to be sort of ‘ You must not drink ever again' and ‘ You naughty boy , you must n't do it ever again' sort of thing . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've done it ever since I was a baby . |