Example sentences of "we ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I said to Dave now I wonder how we ever lived without this . |
| 32 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 33 | We can forget we ever met , that this ever happened , leave this place as it should be . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ You are the last woman I would have thought I would want — you 're everything I despise , but you 're in danger of becoming an obsession and there 's only one way to deal with it : we 'll make love until we 're sated with each other , then we 'll both be free to go our separate ways and forget we ever met . ’ |
| 35 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
| 36 | When every fixed point on the map has been obliterated by the years we 've spent together , and we wonder how the hell we ever met … ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Well , when — and if — we ever raise that hull , we should be able to kill two birds with one stone : to determine the causes of both the explosions and this man 's death . ’ |
| 38 | Should we ever achieve this , there are those faint hearts who have unkindly suggested the added attraction of pigs flying over ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ If we ever get there , ’ put in Grimes gloomily . |
| 40 | You will be paid when we have some funds — if we ever get any funds , as our aim is to pay dancers first . |
| 41 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |
| 42 | That is , ’ he said hoarsely , ‘ if we ever get out of this bedroom again . ’ |
| 43 | In between interviews with ‘ Men of grass ’ and ‘ Interpot reports ’ were editorials denouncing addiction , suggesting , as Tom McGrath had in November 1966 , that ‘ if we ever get round to doing full serious research into drugs as we must do soon — we might find that no one will want to use them again' ; opposing moves to a US-style approach to addiction ; and advising on ways to help junkies . |
| 44 | and that 's that 's the only way it 's amazing we ever get any sort of |
| 45 | If we ever get out of here you can be damn sure I wo n't forget how he saved our lives . ’ |
| 46 | If we ever get up this hill . |
| 47 | Anyone who wants to change anything will have to somehow change it without altering the figures because they 're settled and we know that if we ever go back to No. 10 or the Cabinet we 'll always get the backing of the Prime Minister and the appellant will always be overturned . ’ |
| 48 | He said magnanimously , ’ All that we ever ask for is fair play . ’ |
| 49 | With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done . |
| 50 | Thank you Chairman , on the recommendation four one three erm it says the same standard of service erm I imagine that 's the minimum of exceptional level of service , I mean it 's sad that no longer do we ever talk about |
| 51 | There were only two whose work seemed never to end , and they bore the brunt of an endless string of the only direct orders we ever heard aboard . |
| 52 | All we ever heard in Štanjel was hearsay . |
| 53 | Have we ever met ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Jack , ‘ I ca n't think how we ever got it up . ’ |
| 55 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 56 | I 'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam . |
| 57 | That 's as close as we ever got to it . ’ |
| 58 | Do you know that 's the last picture we ever got of her ? |
| 59 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 60 | Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes . |