Example sentences of "one ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever challenged Henry and won . |
| 2 | ‘ No one ever told me he had a son ! ’ said Mary , very surprised . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , no one ever told me you 'd come to live here . |
| 4 | No one ever knew what was to happen next , as Lily said . |
| 5 | Anna , worn through to her nerve ends , said she thought one would probably drop dead before one ever knew . |
| 6 | No one ever knew where it was she hoped to go . |
| 7 | We went to the theatre and to dinner and I believe I must have talked and , as I have said , I know I sometimes laughed and I think no one ever knew that I was empty of everything except perhaps madness . |
| 8 | We went back to the villa hand in hand and no one ever knew we had been out , or if they did they did n't say . |
| 9 | Those meetings were enclosed within a Fifth Force Field , so that no one ever knew what passed between the Emperor and his Adviser of the Computers . |
| 10 | Twenty five years that man has worn a hairpiece and no one ever knew . |
| 11 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 12 | No one ever knew — in a very serious bit of comedy indeed . |
| 13 | But those Somerville years remain with us , and the friends , and the ageless dons , some livelier , more liberal , than one ever knew ; and it 's good to go back and recall old times , good and bad . |
| 14 | Remember , no one ever saw those bairns until they were cured . ’ |
| 15 | The other fighter came from Nottingham four years ago and had seen much worse than one ever saw at Oxford . |
| 16 | No one ever saw Jasper naked , since he skived off going swimming with his school and Tina was never present when he bathed , but he intended , one day , as a treat or reward , to show the tattoo to Bienvida . |
| 17 | There was so much talk about it , so many furtive conversations , and yet no one ever saw it . |
| 18 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 19 | One thing no one ever talks about is Why Cantona Went : everyone is banned from doing so . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that — well , no one ever talks about her but — but she 's always around , like a — a ghost or a shadow . ’ |
| 21 | She splits me off from you lot , I 'm really fucked off actually cos like when I just go to dinner I just go with bloody Marina and then I sit there and I just do n't say a word and no one ever talks to me . |
| 22 | The latter quality was to remain with him throughout his career , for whatever else his faults may have been , no one ever slighted James 's desire to win : to win at anything and everything , from backgammon through girls to any sport he ever played . |
| 23 | No one ever goes on eating anything they do n't like for long . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's that room no one ever goes in . |
| 25 | Shall I tell you why no one ever goes in ? ’ |
| 26 | It was on condition no one ever reminding them they were actually living there . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a funny thing , ’ she said , ‘ but no one ever answers that truthfully . |
| 28 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 29 | The triumphant audacity of David Alden 's Coliseum production of A Masked Ball ( will one ever forget that last-act image of death on a pale horse smashing time ? ) . |
| 30 | I said ‘ No one ever asks me . ’ |