Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] ever come " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scepticism follows because if we are confined in experience to the contents of our own minds alone , it would seem to be impossible that we should ever come to know anything about — or even come intelligibly to think about — things outside our own minds . |
| 2 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 3 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 4 | He never thought that he would ever come to love the rain , but he did now . |
| 5 | Made from peanuts , nougat , and chunks of glacé cherry , and covered in a thick coating of milk chocolate , it was the best candy bar that he 'd ever come across . |
| 6 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 7 | She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back . |
| 8 | GUIL : If we 'll ever come back . |
| 9 | So Creggan became interested in the Sweeper , and wondered if he would ever come up to his cage and say something , in the way Men did . |
| 10 | Director Danny DeVito says : ‘ Jack 's so far inside the role I wonder if he 'll ever come out of it . ’ |
| 11 | I still do n't know if he 'll ever come across . |
| 12 | Great Western commuters are in favour of electric trains , but sceptical as to whether they 'll ever come about . |
| 13 | He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across . |
| 14 | I believe that it is as close as we can ever come to a universal truth in the history of prisons — that lack of work for prisoners is the greatest cause of indiscipline , unrest and unhappiness among the prisoners . |
| 15 | Thus 1848 and 1849 were the years of great reform of the Austrian school system ; the defeat of the army by France/Piedmont in 1859 was followed by the establishment of constitutional government ; and the defeat of the army by Prussia in 1866 brought liberalism to as close as it would ever come to full state power and led to the establishment of the dual monarchy the following year . |