Example sentences of "i ever " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If I ever settle down , I would n't mind a house like his . |
| 32 | I reckon Marie 's the best friend I ever had . |
| 33 | Like I said , I reckon Marie 's the best friend I ever had . |
| 34 | I do n't think I ever been so happy . |
| 35 | Standing there with her back to me , she looks more beautiful than I ever seen her . |
| 36 | She was the best friend I ever had . |
| 37 | I miss her more than I ever missed anyone . |
| 38 | It 's the most beautiful thing I ever seen . |
| 39 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 40 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 41 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 42 | I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor . |
| 43 | In my 20 or so years visiting the city I do n't believe I ever went home empty-handed . |
| 44 | Hid I ever tell you about the letters he used write to ones he did n't know from Adam — mad letters about him being an airplane pilot ? |
| 45 | ‘ It 's a long time since I was that — if I ever was . ’ |
| 46 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 47 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |
| 48 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 49 | He was the first guy I ever saw in military clothes before the main craze for the mods dressing up in military uniforms went on . |
| 50 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 51 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 52 | I wonder shall I ever delight , touch , or interest one human soul that is strange to me ? |
| 53 | Edward overworked in his lonely digs — ‘ the first time I ever truly worked ’ — and in these early letters to Hooton he discovered new qualities in his nature . |
| 54 | Had I ever considered the prospect myself ? |
| 55 | The whole process was serviced and kept running by as exceptional a staff of civil servants as I ever worked with in over ten years as a Cabinet minister . |
| 56 | How could I ever forget ! ’ said Mark , holding a hand over his eyes . |
| 57 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 58 | I ever truly loved , |
| 59 | How can I ever drop my eyes as deep |
| 60 | The only person I ever felt I might fall in love with again in the same way was a Japanese , the poet Takahashi Mutsuo . |