Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] ever [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word .
2 ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky .
3 Her Dad : that door was firmly closed now ; she did n't see it ever opening again although she still watched it , hoping .
4 They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other .
5 ‘ I do n't think we ever had one .
6 Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any .
7 A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that .
8 Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth .
9 ‘ I do n't think we ever thought , though , that the bank would not support us .
10 I do n't think we ever thought the bank would not support us .
11 Well right-oh we er I do n't think we ever do expect that much .
12 Yes definitely I mean I do n't think we ever dreamt in our wildest dreams I think really it was maybe chance thing f fate or whatever you know .
13 As her son Charles , the new Earl Spencer , observes : ‘ It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I do n't think they ever got over it . ’
14 I do n't think they ever got along .
15 But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking
16 I do n't think they ever stopped .
17 ‘ I do n't think I ever knew her last name .
18 I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid .
19 I do n't think I ever saw it .
20 I do n't think I ever saw a nude woman in the house — certainly there were women in various states of undress … but never nude . "
21 I do n't think I ever saw her again .
22 I do n't think I ever saw erm , yeah I did n't though .
23 We got our ration books — for us and the cattle-food as well — but I do n't think I ever worried about the possibility of Hitler invading us .
24 I do n't think I ever met a refined man before .
25 But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know .
26 ‘ I do n't think I ever heard of him , ’ Agnes said .
27 Yes , right to , to and , and you could even go on farther , but I do n't think I ever went any further I did n't have time .
28 All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything .
29 Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did .
30 I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely
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