Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] only ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only ever late once and he was an old superintendent — Angus — he was n't bad . |
| 2 | I was only ever interested in abstract art . |
| 3 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 4 | But yesterday , Susan Fey , of the CTC Trust , said , ‘ We were only ever given a target of 20 . |
| 5 | There is currently another ‘ Al Jolson ’ in Glasgow who would be better off singing in a silent movie , so it is important to remember that there was only ever one real ‘ Al ’ , and he regaled Glasgow with ‘ Mammy ’ and the rest in real sound for a six-week run . |
| 6 | I think there was only ever my father , for her . ’ |
| 7 | It was the pivotal teaching of Pluthero Quexos , the most celebrated dramatist of the Second Dominion , that in any fiction , no matter how ambitious its scope or profound its theme , there was only ever room for three players . |
| 8 | ‘ There was only ever one girl I seriously thought about asking — and someone else beat me to it . ’ |
| 9 | Ringa Hustle … was one of the last dogs to go into the traps at wimbledon on Saturday … he was drawn in three alongside his kennel mate Lassa Java … the derby is the race of the year for greyhounds … 40,000 to the winner and there was only ever going to be one winner … |
| 10 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 11 | That it was only ever your money ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He was only ever annoying — not actually bad . ’ |