Example sentences of "ever [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
| 2 | ‘ All I ever cared for , all I ever hated you for , Warren , was the lie . ’ |
| 3 | How could she have ever fallen for Marcus 's attractive looks and been blind to the shallowness of his character ? |
| 4 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 5 | No opportunity was ever given for the ‘ Šiptars ’ to exercise their promised right of self-determination . |
| 6 | Thompson is the 4/9 favourite with William Hill to win the best actress Oscar , the shortest odds they have ever given for a British actress nominated for a prize . |
| 7 | A GIRL of seven has become the youngest person ever to sue for sexual harassment . |
| 8 | In the US , Pinnacle , which peddles almost anything and everything you 'd ever want for a Sparc system will have board and system-level HyperSparc and SuperSparc products when it gets deliveries from the chip-makers . |
| 9 | All the ingredients would be there in Carry on Sergeant and although most of the stock characters would come later , the basic idea was evident from the first ever laughs for a ‘ Carry On ’ film in 1958 . |
| 10 | Have you ever lobbied for a woman to win the prize ? |
| 11 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 12 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 13 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 14 | And has she ever stripped for the cameras ? |
| 15 | The lesson was , of course , that I must never , ever cry for myself for I was a lucky little girl ; my tears should be for all the strong , brave women who gave me life . |
| 16 | ’ It add up to more Fedcreds than we 've ever earned for one job , ’ I said lightly . |
| 17 | THE only Football Supporters candidate ever to stand for Parliament has issued his touchline manifesto to the North-East 's election candidates . |
| 18 | Rainwater goods , coping roof edge trims and ventilators — in fact , everything you will ever need for the perfect job . |
| 19 | No one will ever know for sure . |
| 20 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 21 | ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’ |
| 22 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
| 23 | More drama was to come in May 1925 , when Chapman signed Alex Jackson , the Aberdeen winger , at nineteen one of the youngest internationals ever to appear for Scotland . |
| 24 | He 'll make sure neither the wife nor the two boys ever want for anything . |
| 25 | He 'll want the facts right if ever qualifying for some later inclusion in ‘ Champions of the Ring , ’ the life stories of the heavyweight kings that 's out this month . |
| 26 | Both times were on the Great North Road and no one was ever done for it . |
| 27 | Ruth had to look away , ashamed ; what had she ever done for Fand , except break that promise to her ? |
| 28 | What , here in St Benet Oldfield , had it ever done for them ? |
| 29 | Now you 've got to prove it yet again — this time to yourself and it 's going to be the hardest thing you 've ever done for her . |
| 30 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |