Example sentences of "if [pron] [is] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like those boys that come in for a single rose as if nobody 's ever done that before . |
| 2 | So er and and they 're quite I mean if nobody 's ever seen a er erm |
| 3 | Find out if she 's ever thrown a race . |
| 4 | If she is ever going to learn to stand on her own feet finally , when her grieving is over , she will need your acceptance , for the time being , that what she is experiencing now is something like the intense suffering of a child separated from the security of its mother 's presence , with all the feelings of fear and panic that brings . |
| 5 | I do n't know if anybody 's ever seen those but you can actually have a computer at the side and a thing that sits on there and you can change and up on the screen it will appear what 's on the screen on the computer . |
| 6 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 7 | The company has not attempted to sell its products abroad , but feels that if it is ever to expand again , then overseas markets are the only feasible method . |
| 8 | ‘ What Tory back-benchers should be thinking about is the mass retribution that will come upon the Tory Party as people discover the full impact of this treaty if it is ever brought into effect . |
| 9 | And it maybe , if it 's ever published , while we 're still here in two thousand and forty six , and my executors do as I hope they will , erm , you know , it will be a book alongside Samuel Pepys , and Casanova and Saint Augustine , it 's that length . |
| 10 | If it 's ever proved that the mink has had an unacceptable effect on the environment , then it might be difficult , if not impossible , to redress the balance . |
| 11 | ‘ He does n't look as if he 's ever seen hounds before ! |
| 12 | I wonder if he 's ever seen a seal ? |
| 13 | It 's not as if he 's ever seen either of us , or is ever likely to again , ’ Cara hissed , as one or two people turned to look at them . |
| 14 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 15 | WHAT music would the Transport Secretary , John MacGregor , choose if he is ever invited on to Desert Island Discs ? |
| 16 | A man can not be an island here if he is ever to turn his back on this place . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That is , if he is ever to come out of prison . |