Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] ever [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 2 | yeah that 's the limit that , that 's the most we ever did in Wigan was n't it ? |
| 3 | Why ca n't I ever behave like the person I want to be ? |
| 4 | Have n't you ever felt like that ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you ever go to school , Joe , when you were young ? ’ |
| 6 | And of course the old man was there and he come over and grabbed the bloke by the throat and he said do n't you ever shout at my son like that again . |
| 7 | Do n't you ever think of anyone but yourself ? ’ |
| 8 | Do n't you ever think of anything but dosh ? ’ |
| 9 | Did n't you ever think of that ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't you ever think about anything but correcting grammar ? ’ |
| 11 | Have n't you ever puzzled about it ? ’ |
| 12 | Well , have n't you ever loved like that ? ’ she demanded desperately . |
| 13 | Do n't you ever speak to me like that again , I have n't , I rang , no , no , I the landlord either , I waited until the next morning . |
| 14 | do n't you ever speak to me like that again , and do n't ever push me again , I said balls you old cunt . |
| 15 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 16 | Do n't you ever talk to your mother like that again , you revolting little bitch , ’ he howled . |
| 17 | Why do n't you ever talk about them ? ’ |
| 18 | Have n't you ever heard of it ? |
| 19 | Have n't you ever heard about it ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why do n't you ever arrive on time ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But do n't you ever feel like — well , just packing everything in and just — going ? |
| 22 | Do n't you ever ask for any proof of identification ? |
| 23 | Alan , alan bald is not er alan bald is not necessarily beautiful , have n't you ever thought of covering it up ? |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you ever listen to a word I say to you ? ’ he bit out thickly . |
| 25 | Do n't you ever listen to the radio , you know ? |
| 26 | Did n't he ever write to your mother at some time or other ? ’ and she said , ‘ I … |
| 27 | ‘ Has n't it ever occurred to you that I find you repulsive — that I 'd rather be kissed by a lizard than you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 29 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |