Example sentences of "ever [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never had to shout , and no one ever argued with them . |
| 2 | ‘ Before I came here , I had my life all sorted out , I was happy — at least , as happy as I ever expected to be . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things . |
| 4 | ‘ All I ever cared for , all I ever hated you for , Warren , was the lie . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 's the only one in the world who ever cared about me , ’ she said , but when Julia protested , Minnie sneered , ‘ It 's all right . |
| 6 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 7 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |
| 8 | It was one of the worst trips I ever made in Venturous and it was my last . |
| 9 | One of the best investments we ever made in our business . |
| 10 | I am the Kha-Khan 's trusted servant , and he has given me everything I ever asked of him : this land in perpetuity , peace and security for our clan forever . ’ |
| 11 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 12 | An example will serve to illustrate this point : Leigh Hunt was a vegetarian , and praised ‘ in glowing words the cauliflower swimming in melted butter ’ ; Wordsworth wryly asked whether ‘ if by chance of good luck they ever met with a caterpillar , they thanked their stars for a delicious morsel of animal food ’ . |
| 13 | I think you are the boldest man I ever met with , but sir , surely you ought to know that you are not now in the Haymarket . |
| 14 | Billy was the most boastful little sod I ever met in my life . |
| 15 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 16 | Alexandra said , ‘ He is the most interesting person I ever met in my life . ’ |
| 17 | Far worse than anything I ever met in the south . |
| 18 | What ever became of ‘ Feet ’ Schofield ? |
| 19 | We both know he made far more from the caravan business than he ever admitted to . |
| 20 | This is a very special breed , the smallest of those of the Channel Islands , with some unusual features and a remarkable ability to adapt to extreme climates , especially those far hotter than it ever experienced on the island of its isolated development . |
| 21 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 22 | I said to Dave now I wonder how we ever lived without this . |
| 23 | That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma . |
| 24 | He was also the best playwright , the best poet , that ever lived in England . |
| 25 | ‘ Your the biggest blasted dictator that ever lived in a home ! ’ ’ |
| 26 | It was to be the only home he ever owned in Palestine . |
| 27 | As her son Charles , the new Earl Spencer , observes : ‘ It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I do n't think they ever got over it . ’ |
| 28 | Nobody ever got through Sybil 's guard . |
| 29 | One may wonder how one ever got through it ! |
| 30 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |