Example sentences of "how [vb past] [pers pn] ever [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did he ever settle ? ’ |
| 2 | Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ? |
| 3 | God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ? |
| 4 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 5 | But how did you ever meet them ? |
| 6 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
| 7 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
| 8 | Costa and Costa1 argue that word processing programs on microcomputers " have a way of transforming even computerphobes into dedicated believers of the " how did I ever live without it " variety " and , such is the difference in quality of output between documents produced on a word processor and those handwritten or typed on a conventional typewriter , that school librarians , teachers and pupils quickly become convinced of the need for and extensive uses of such programs . |