Example sentences of "[adv] ever have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only ever had cream of mushroom . |
| 2 | And in that time I really only ever had one proper job and that was for two weeks . |
| 3 | The Cult only ever had one truly great riff of their own — ‘ She Sells Sanctuary ’ — but on ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Sonic Temple ’ they at least had the intelligence to plunder the repertoires of The Stones and Zeppelin , here , they sound like they 've been dipping into a library of unreleased Uriah Heep doodlings … uninspired , to say the least . |
| 4 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 5 | ‘ I only ever had that once before . |
| 6 | talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and |
| 7 | I thought that might look quite nice for madam , see my two only ever had cheap beds to start with anyway , I knew that I 'd get them better ones later on |
| 8 | As she comes to , outside the duty-free wristwatches , it suddenly occurs to her that she 's only ever had one holiday with Chris before , and that was three days in northern France . |
| 9 | He had only ever had one bit of trouble with him personally , but he remembered it well , He had caught Nigger , then fourteen years old , putting a sleeper across the rails , just to see what would happen to the train . |
| 10 | It has only ever had one edition in the Russian — in 1920 — and one German translation in 1922 . |
| 11 | I 've only ever had one job . |
| 12 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 13 | She had only ever had one man before in her life . |
| 14 | She had only ever had a vague impression of Frank Shildon and was interested in how far that was at variance with what she was discovering . |
| 15 | Well on the Wittering job he said he wanted somebody there you know er myself as manager to oversee the job but on the Sheffield Wednesday job , incidentally I 'd I got the contract from them both , the Sheffield Wednesday job was done I 'd only ever had to visit it once and that was at my request not at anybody else 's and either way both erm the Wittering and the Sheffield Wednesday er there have been other drivers going . |
| 16 | We 've only ever had that one . |
| 17 | Granny 's visits to Bowes Road would always be very much appreciated by her little granddaughter Doris , if only because of the teatime treats which would attend such occasions ; as she took the old lady upstairs to dispose of her coat , Doris would whisper : ‘ We 've got blackcurrant pie today because you 're here ; we only ever have it when you come … ’ . |
| 18 | And , in our English language we actually make this mistake when we talk about birthdays French , in some ways are for more sensible with language , and you only ever have one birthday , the rest of them are anniversaries of your birthday . |
| 19 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 20 | Uncle Philip could only ever have possessed the one hat . |
| 21 | have held lengthy dialogue with the commission , no formal clearance what so ever has even been given commission suggested and encouraged to notify , but they did not , they had the opportunity to do so , they declined it , one might say is a market of risk takers , this is a risk that they took . |
| 22 | This is because you will have developed , without necessarily ever having thought about it , some learning style preferences that equip you better for certain stages in the cycle than for others . |
| 23 | This fantasy world of natural lust , ironically , can scarcely ever have been more closely realized than in the appalling conditions of the urban poor in the sordid back streets and alleys of prosperous Victorian cities ; but it could not , of course , be permitted to endure for long in the theoretical world . |
| 24 | Do you do you remember ever ever having long periods of illness yourself ? |
| 25 | Howard Hughes hardly ever had a close friend . |
| 26 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 27 | ‘ We hardly ever had it — Martin and I , that is . |
| 28 | When , however , contemporaries celebrated the existence of child labour in the pre-factory economy , they hardly ever had the unfortunate pauper children in mind . |
| 29 | ‘ Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one , ’ added the report , ‘ but his articles have probably never been so criticized . |
| 30 | He hardly ever has a cold … ’ |