Example sentences of "[verb] ever [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have already warned you to be on your guard against anything that any anthropologist has ever written about kinship terminologies , so I will not pursue the matter here . |
| 2 | As almost every woman who has ever complained about jokes against women has been told , ‘ Where 's your sense of humour ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No designer has ever complained about me . ’ |
| 4 | Tomorrow , I shall make her eat , on toast and with ketchup , every word she has ever said about the men of the New World . |
| 5 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 6 | It was the first time she 'd ever spoken about her early life to anyone . |
| 7 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |
| 8 | It was also unthinkable to have to admit to this maternity nurse that the sex of her baby was the last thing she had ever worried about . |
| 9 | For the first time in her life she felt radiantly satisfied , as though she had somehow managed to find all the answers to every question she had ever asked about herself . |
| 10 | Yesterday publican John McKeague said that Mr McGarry had been drinking regularly in his bar for the last 20 years , but added that no one had ever asked about his movements . |
| 11 | Caroline had smiled and said yes , it was , but what she 'd really wanted to say was that she doubted if Nicolo had ever hesitated about getting what he wanted in his entire life . |
| 12 | I asked several people besides Demetriades , who had been at the school only a year , whether Leverrier , Mitford 's predecessor , or Mitford himself had ever spoken about meeting Conchis . |
| 13 | This was the first time he had ever talked about himself , so she knew it must be very important and felt flattered that he was confiding in her . |
| 14 | This was the first time Eve had ever talked about her life . |
| 15 | It was not , however , a subject I had ever thought about . |
| 16 | I was asked if I had ever thought about finding a flat and living up here . |
| 17 | In fact , as Ivo pulled up at her hotel , she realised that , if anything , Vendelin Gajdusek had learned far more about her that evening than she had ever learned about him ! |
| 18 | All you 've ever cared about is being approved of , like a little girl at a party . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think I 've ever heard about this , Edna . ’ |
| 20 | All right then — ’ he edged closer so that he was whispering rather than shouting over the juke-box ‘ — here 's the nastiest rumour I 've ever heard about Steenie — really nasty rumour . |
| 21 | Well we 'll get carbon dioxide off , so you might be iridium carbonate or ytterbium , we 've got a powder which may be ytterbium car carbonate or ytterbium sulphate and you never heard of this stuff , ah carbonate carbonate and maybe , maybe ytterbium carbonate does n't give off carbon dioxide with acid , but there is a very good chance it does cos all the others you 've ever heard about do . |
| 22 | And thankfully us independent consultants in training have just been er vindicated for all we 've ever said about them . |
| 23 | Well seriously Cass like the only thing like that I 've ever said about you like is that one day in the classroom right there was this picture of this naked woman on the right ? |
| 24 | If you 've ever worried about how to get a spider out of your bath … help could be at hand . |
| 25 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 26 | Mark says , ‘ I do n't think I 've ever cried about it . |
| 27 | But if people move on , it 's understandable , in the event that everyone moves on , and I 'm left dangling in the recording studio — then it would seem to confirm everything I 've ever thought about the cruelties of life . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose you could be right and I was feeling an a er an actual blow but not something I 've ever thought about or never put into words like you know . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm forgetting everything I 've ever known about them . |
| 30 | If you believed everything you 've ever read about desktop publishing it 's quite possible that you think anyone who can use a computer can turn out professional looking material with consummate ease . |