Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Capriati admitted she is not prepared to wait for ever to achieve her ambition to be world No 1 . |
| 2 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 3 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |
| 4 | Well , we had already lasted three months , and I was keeping my fingers crossed for our relationship to continue for ever . |
| 5 | Is the Church to continue for ever to be under-remunerated because just sufficient hear the call ? |
| 6 | New arrivals on the street scene were to be the stars of tomorrow and the mink-lined coffins that were the grand old studios were about to disappear for ever . |
| 7 | here old fashioned soft touch detective work can still be observed in the bars and campsites ; private eyeballing of which a Bogart or a Mitchum would have been proud — last call for a way of life about to disappear for ever . |
| 8 | Preferences can change , and if different political parties have differing views , a private rather than social interest can not be expected to persist for ever . |
| 9 | Supplanted , perhaps ; cheated ( by fate ) probably ; but now self-absolved from its responsibility , though to bear for ever in his mind the trauma of a calling from which he had somehow been disinherited . |
| 10 | Do we build a house to stand for ever , do we seal a contract to hold for all time ? |
| 11 | She sighed in anticipation , this would be an evening to remember for ever . |
| 12 | But it was seeing her waving — standing there and seeming to wave for ever as she backed away from me . |
| 13 | But if she were to look for ever and a day , she would not find it . |
| 14 | Students may choose quite early which behaviours to avoid for ever — or try to . |
| 15 | At the moment they think being with their parents is absolutely wonderful and that 's not going to last for ever . |
| 16 | The lock cut seemed to last for ever , narrowing though , with high dark trees on the left ; finally , blessedly , on the right , there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock to the lower level of the river below . |
| 17 | Nothing Less likely to last for ever |
| 18 | The stench of the skunk seems to last for ever . |
| 19 | July 17 was towards the end of the summer term when the evenings seemed to last for ever . |
| 20 | They often rode for hours in contented silence , remembering the good years behind them when everything had been simple and summer seemed to last for ever . |
| 21 | An example is the apparent gap or semantic skip between the third and fourth distich , i.e , between , " naked , dares to lead the dance " , and , " expect nothing to last for ever " . |
| 22 | Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever , does the flood-time of rivers endure ? … |
| 23 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run for ever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 24 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 25 | There were signs of human habitation , scraps of litter , faint smells , broken pottery , strange markings on the walls of the caves which seemed to stretch for ever down into the blackness beneath the cliffs . |
| 26 | Peter 's not going to live for ever . |
| 27 | As a matter of fact , it was one of those cases where the nursing staff had an unreasonable wish for him to live for ever — he was a very charming man . |
| 28 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 29 | ‘ There was a time when I planned to live for ever , but the time has come to change those plans . ’ |
| 30 | Moreover , the risk that conventional conflicts may get out of hand and degenerate into nuclear disaster is one with which mankind will have to live for ever , and it strengthens the argument for attempting to keep conflicts within some kinds of bounds . |