Example sentences of "ever [verb] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 2 | While British defence expenditure was consistently high by comparative international standards , and while many idealists agonized over Britain 's possession of nuclear weapons , the vast bulk of British citizens , outside Northern Ireland , neither experienced military conflict nor ever expected to do so . |
| 3 | Nobody had ever dared to do anything like that before . |
| 4 | John wrote to Hanns during rehearsals that ‘ Lionel and Lillian say it 's most difficult pas de deux they 've ever had to do . ’ |
| 5 | Telling the children was probably the hardest thing I 've ever had to do . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the sort of work Super Mario has ever had to do , but I feel a little more patriotic about this than any of my other jobs , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Close to tears , the 34-year-old told viewers that going public was one of the most difficult things he 'd ever had to do . |
| 8 | It was the most technically complex piece of acting I 've ever had to do . |
| 9 | Somehow she had to learn to live with the pain of the deception and get on with her life , but she knew it was going to be the hardest thing she had ever had to do . |
| 10 | Watching my son die was the hardest thing I 've ever had to do . |
| 11 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 12 | just just just finished no more course work the last course work I 'm ever going to do , she says Erm I 've got a hundred and twenty pieces you can help me mark . . |
| 13 | I looked at the illustration and I thought no way is that ever going to do any thing that chops |
| 14 | All that such devices could ever hope to do was to stave off the exercise of French sovereignty . |
| 15 | She had to find out whether her suspicions were true or not , and how else could she ever hope to do that if she did not ask him directly ? |
| 16 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 17 | Secondly , I wanted to create a factory where nobody would ever have to do any physical work . |
| 18 | You do n't ever have to do anything you do n't want to . |
| 19 | Would anyone ever have to do anything with infinite conductors shaped like that ? |
| 20 | The erm , shapes , did you ever have to do that with the thingy in the middle ? |
| 21 | I 'm sure you 'll agree that once you 've read a copy , you 'll wonder how you ever managed to do without it ! |
| 22 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 23 | But it 's all I ever wanted to do . |
| 24 | That 's all I have ever wanted to do . ’ |
| 25 | Have you ever wanted to do anything other than play music ? |
| 26 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ She wants him to ask her to get married and he wants her to give up her job , which is the only thing she 's ever wanted to do . |
| 28 | If a reader ever expects to do more about the stringing of an old keyboard instrument ( or a modern instrument designed after one ) than replacing broken strings , it is essential that he or she is familiar with this book . |
| 29 | Have you ever tried to do shorthand ? |
| 30 | I do n't think Andy ever meant to do anything with this place . |