Example sentences of "[was/were] ever give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 2 | The US components divisions would hit the goddamned roof if that proposal was ever given the light of day . |
| 3 | NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments . |
| 4 | No opportunity was ever given for the ‘ Šiptars ’ to exercise their promised right of self-determination . |
| 5 | MATURITY IS : Recognising that no commandment of God was ever given to complicate life but to guarantee the quality of it . |
| 6 | No such all-embracing promise was ever given to Australia 's aborigines , and Mr Keating gave no hint that one would be given now . |
| 7 | App. 332 a broker in Bombay entered into future delivery contracts for the purchase and sale of commodities in various foreign markets with parties outside British India , in which no delivery was ever given or taken , and the profits flowing from such contracts were not received in British India . |
| 8 | No explanation for the fall was ever given , though Sir Thomas believed he may have been involved in some stupid jape . |
| 9 | So , in addition to the high increases in taxation that the Labour party would impose if it was ever given a chance , the community charge payer , or the council tax payer , would be ripped apart by high-spending Labour authorities , because there would be no capping . |
| 10 | No instruction was ever given to Mrs Taylor that she must work on Sundays . |