Example sentences of "[adv] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I was not fortunate enough ever to see him in the flesh , I suggest that his picture should be tattooed on the brain of every aspiring judge . |
| 2 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 3 | Make-up was a mystery to Pamela who had only ever worn lipstick . |
| 4 | Yeah , yeah , so you only ever take |
| 5 | You only ever take that figure . |
| 6 | But , as a sex counsellor , I only ever get to meet the women who ca n't . |
| 7 | And what 's more , there 's no pressure to buy , no long term commitment to meet and a Red House ordering procedure that guarantees that you only ever get the books you ask for . |
| 8 | Egon Zehnder has only ever employed 140 consultants , and 100 of those are still with the firm . |
| 9 | New York was –30 miles away and , apart from business trips , he only ever returned there to compete in some of the city 's more gruelling and arduous marathons . |
| 10 | he 's only ever missed a call-out once |
| 11 | Some jokes are so awful that you should only ever tell them while you 're wearing a decent pair of trainers . |
| 12 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 13 | She had only ever visited his office once before — as an awestruck teenager in the company of her stepfather — but she remembered precisely where it was . |
| 14 | People were only ever watching when she did something dreadful , never at a moment of triumph . |
| 15 | She is very health-conscious and would only ever drink herbal tea even . |
| 16 | One would not want to suggest that attending football games on Saturdays , as opposed to any other day , was rule-governed if matches are only ever played on Saturdays . |
| 17 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 18 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |
| 19 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 20 | Broadway risk is only ever justified by the huge rewards that come from a success . |
| 21 | ‘ I only ever go to church when I have to go to funerals , ’ said Amiss gloomily . |
| 22 | But surely for the early moderns also : terminology apart , did not nosce teipsum only ever mean something like that ? |
| 23 | The Ovation 1992-H Collectors series will only ever materialise once , and so for that matter will this competition to win one . |
| 24 | I read in a newspaper recently that he 'd said , ‘ I 've only ever done one chat show and I 'll never do another one . ’ |
| 25 | It does because I 've only ever done that by differentiating from S |
| 26 | Iago only ever talks about destroying Othello and Desdemona , has even forgotten about his own career , and Othello takes over his obsessions . |
| 27 | Sadly , his agent , James Kirkman , fends off the futile inquirer with the enthusiasm of a royal bodyguard and indignantly informs you that Freud has only ever painted ‘ family and friends ’ . |
| 28 | But Alex dismisses hippy tags as totally misguided , claiming he only ever enjoyed one Steve Hillage album — ‘ Rainbow Dome Music ’ — which he was spinning in a club when Hillage himself came over and made contact . |
| 29 | He only ever played there once but it convinced us he 'd make it . ’ |
| 30 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |