Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't know how she ever managed wi'out you . ’ |
| 2 | No I do n't know how she ever put up with it , poor mum . |
| 3 | He had never been an impressive priest — dispensing sacraments , sermons and whist-drive announcements with the same patient ennui , like a weary shopkeeper who has forgotten why he ever started to sell . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 5 | ‘ Marlene , I do n't know why I ever wanted to marry you … ’ |
| 6 | You never really benefit from them at bedroom sound levels anyway , but turn up the wick and you begin to wonder how you ever managed without one . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 8 | When I think about it , he wrote , I find it difficult to remember why I ever embarked on it . |
| 9 | But difficult at times to remember why I ever made such a plan , he wrote . |
| 10 | I daresay you 're wondering how we ever came to meet — Club Mediterranée it was . |
| 11 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 12 | I 'm sure you 'll agree that once you 've read a copy , you 'll wonder how you ever managed to do without it ! |
| 13 | Moreover , when you try it out for yourself you will wonder how you ever managed without it . |
| 14 | In fact the time may come when you 'll wonder how you ever did without them . |
| 15 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Jack , ‘ I ca n't think how we ever got it up . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
| 18 | I said to Dave now I wonder how we ever lived without this . |
| 19 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 20 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 22 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 23 | ‘ Can you imagine how she ever conceived Syl ? ’ |
| 24 | With George 's anarchic tendencies I often wondered why he ever chose to work in such a highly structured and formal setting as the organisation . |
| 25 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |
| 26 | ‘ God knows why you ever married me ! |