Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] ever [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do you ever see the town picking back up again , and getting a few more factories in the ? |
| 2 | And walks in Do you ever sort this coronation soup at home . |
| 3 | Thank you Chairman , on the recommendation four one three erm it says the same standard of service erm I imagine that 's the minimum of exceptional level of service , I mean it 's sad that no longer do we ever talk about |
| 4 | Do you ever do you ever go out to the to pubs round here ? |
| 5 | Clyde , obviously a fairly tense type , confessed to feelings of hostility towards his mother : ‘ Not once did she ever tell me she loved me . ’ |
| 6 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 7 | Do you does she ever does she ever play out at all or ? |
| 8 | Now do you ever buy stamps though to give to other people ? |
| 9 | Well did you ever go , what did you say |
| 10 | Do n't let him ever remember what the sun-god told him , or it will be the worse for you . " |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 12 | ‘ How did he ever settle ? ’ |
| 13 | Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ? |
| 14 | God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ? |
| 15 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 16 | But how did you ever meet them ? |
| 17 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
| 18 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
| 19 | Costa and Costa1 argue that word processing programs on microcomputers " have a way of transforming even computerphobes into dedicated believers of the " how did I ever live without it " variety " and , such is the difference in quality of output between documents produced on a word processor and those handwritten or typed on a conventional typewriter , that school librarians , teachers and pupils quickly become convinced of the need for and extensive uses of such programs . |
| 20 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |
| 21 | Instead of asking ‘ How do we ever unlearn our native egoism ? ’ we must ask ‘ How near to a true philosophical egoism do we ever succeed in getting ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , but then how do you ever know that your dear little baby is n't going to grow up to be tall and elegant ? ’ she quipped with huge enjoyment . |
| 23 | You fellows , you 're always locked up in these big houses helping out , how do you ever get to see around this beautiful country of yours ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How does one ever know that , Henry ? ’ |
| 25 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
| 26 | And why Did I ever tell you , as though I were an old friend ? |
| 27 | Why , why did I ever leave my home ? |
| 28 | Oh , Christ , why did I ever get into this business ? |
| 29 | Why did you ever ask ? |
| 30 | When do you ever see a poor man with someone twenty years younger ? ’ |