Example sentences of "[adv] ever see " 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 | It must be pointed out before we go any further that my friends in Harwich had a rather distorted picture of my life in that they only ever saw the best of me . |
| 3 | She married and he only ever saw her once again , yet declared : ‘ She was really , really , the only being in the world who could have given me peace and rest . ’ |
| 4 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 5 | Or would you be one of those people who only ever saw the worst of everything , because they are around are n't they ? |
| 6 | The more time he spent with Jeopardy , the more he realised Jeopardy only ever saw people as extensions of his work . |
| 7 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 8 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 9 | The kitchen , which Mungo had only ever seen full of people , seemed incomplete ; waiting for human activity to bring it to life . |
| 10 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 11 | I have only ever seen this once . |
| 12 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 13 | A creature only ever seen on the magical Isle of Man , Jimmy Squarefoot has a formidable appearance , with the head and tusks of a large boar , the body of a man , and large square feet swathed in calico bands . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 16 | There were no stores like the ones she could now see flashing past the cab window , fine jewellers and milliners , bookshops and department stores , their windows displaying a variety of goods Ellie had only ever seen in the pictures of second-hand magazines . |
| 17 | Again , she had only ever seen pictures of rooms like this in magazines , in the homes of film stars : enormous chambers furnished as this one was with deep wing chairs and buttoned leather chesterfields , warmed by a huge log fire blazing in the grate , and with every wall hung with various and ornately framed oil paintings . |
| 18 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 19 | These are Houseparties that move by motor from one idyllic anchorage to another , often visiting places only ever seen by yachtsmen . |
| 20 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 22 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 23 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 24 | I 've only ever seen one and the one that , the recent one is called just Cher and that 's got all the last , the last few top ten hits on it . |
| 25 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 26 | I I 've only ever seen the first film of it . |
| 27 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 28 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 29 | On the other hand , this point of view has to be balanced against those who protest that they only ever see politicians at election time and that if they do n't even call then they are undeserving of a vote . |
| 30 | If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television . |