Example sentences of "ever [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could she have ever fallen for Marcus 's attractive looks and been blind to the shallowness of his character ? |
| 2 | No opportunity was ever given for the ‘ Šiptars ’ to exercise their promised right of self-determination . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Have you ever lobbied for a woman to win the prize ? |
| 5 | And has she ever stripped for the cameras ? |
| 6 | ’ It add up to more Fedcreds than we 've ever earned for one job , ’ I said lightly . |
| 7 | Both times were on the Great North Road and no one was ever done for it . |
| 8 | Ruth had to look away , ashamed ; what had she ever done for Fand , except break that promise to her ? |
| 9 | What , here in St Benet Oldfield , had it ever done for them ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 12 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 13 | I wish I had a pound for every time friends have turned to me and asked : ‘ Yeah well , what has SUSA ever done for us ? ’ |
| 14 | The flood of almost 3D colour and composition was one of the finest I 've ever seen for colour flow . |
| 15 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 16 | The flood of almost 3D colour and composition was one of the finest I 've ever seen for colour flow . |
| 17 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 18 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 19 | And I have to say that this is the minimum I 've ever seen for a sales person to have to do . |
| 20 | the only one I 've ever seen for is Wrigley 's |
| 21 | [ Around 1800 ] persons … were enabled by their skill and industry to maintain themselves and families in a state of comfort and respectability ; and to keep their own houses and pay taxes , scot and lot , and contribute towards the maintenance of other persons in their profession , who were either sick or in distress , so that it was scarcely known that any person in this trade ever applied for parochial relief . |
| 22 | It must be one of the funniest speeches ever written for an actress , and needs a bubbly , light touch . |
| 23 | Certainly no American text of the sort I am discussing was ever written for black people — no more than Uncle Tom 's Cabin was written for Uncle Tom to read or be persuaded by . |
| 24 | Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter . |
| 25 | The fine was the largest ever imposed for river pollution in the UK . |
| 26 | A BRITISH-controlled coal company , Costain Coal , pleaded guilty yesterday to 29 charges stemming from the deaths of ten miners in an explosion and was fined $3.75 million — the largest penalty ever imposed for federal mine safety violations . |
| 27 | If I 'm ever strapped for cash I 'll cruise around . |
| 28 | That was all I ever felt for any woman — until I met you . ’ |
| 29 | And they include the most powerful steam locomotive ever built for the 1ft 11¾in gauge , the 1928 built German ‘ 77 ’ ( 2.6.2 plus 2-6-2 ) which is capable of hauling 600 tons on the level and 180 tons up a 1-in-33 gradient . |
| 30 | As long as the note holders had confidence that the issuing goldsmiths could redeem their gold pledges on demand , few notes were ever presented for redemption . |