Example sentences of "[pers pn] ever [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 2 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | I wonder why you did n't phone your lawyer before I ever got to the front door . ’ |
| 5 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 6 | ‘ If I ever go to a funeral in an out-of-the-way place , I always get pushed a discoloured glass of potheen . |
| 7 | ‘ If I ever go to Thailand I shall look this chap up . ’ |
| 8 | How could I ever explain to them and how could I tell Jennifer ? |
| 9 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 10 | Last year 's , th the f the first stockings I ever went to was brilliant , they had Right Said Fred live |
| 11 | ‘ Before I came here , I had my life all sorted out , I was happy — at least , as happy as I ever expected to be . |
| 12 | but it left me with an interest in Leeds United which I 've never shaken off , nor have I ever wnated to . |
| 13 | What have I ever done to anyone ? |
| 14 | What have I ever done to you ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What 've I ever done to you , Carter ? ’ |
| 16 | Unlike Mr I have always found fox hunting distasteful , I have never participated in it , I have never followed it and I do n't think that I I ever want to and er , I have I am not convinced by either economic or the put forward in its favour . |
| 17 | Oh baby , if I were n't so trammelled , would I ever like to rev up and give this little sweetheart one cosmic klop on the jaw . |
| 18 | Louis XVIII replied coldly : " Have I ever ceased to be ? " |
| 19 | How could I ever listen to office gossip |
| 20 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 21 | ‘ Nor have I ever suggested to any working woman that she 'd be better off at home where she belongs . |
| 22 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 23 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 24 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 25 | I got him a couple of times but he was one of the best I ever bowled to . |
| 26 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
| 27 | Not that there was any real danger of his ever mattering to her . |
| 28 | There was no question of his ever returning to the office , or of carrying on the firm . |
| 29 | D' ya ever talk to yourself ? |
| 30 | There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’ |