Example sentences of "ever [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air and satellite surveys detected 50,000–88,000 fires in the Amazon basin in September , says Friends of the Earth , making 1991 by far the worst year ever for this kind of destruction . |
| 2 | The population sample was the largest ever for this kind of study , as was its timescale ( twenty-five years from 1960 to 1985 ) . |
| 3 | But as the politicians continue to argue and the gunmen continue their own agenda , the people are as desperate as ever for some formula which will end the killing . |
| 4 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 5 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 6 | Ambitious as ever for more recognition than was either possible or reasonable , she was no longer satisfied with receiving honours worthy of a spouse , or even a ‘ world-ranking scientist ’ in her own right . |
| 7 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 8 | The first survey ever of such tests has found that another 59 companies say they may start testing . |
| 9 | But in the cold mesmeric last movement , the string sound froze into an eerie atmospheric whine , we shivered , as the oboe wrote the final poignant sentences in a fine , frosted line , and were left , as ever with this work , with a feeling of chill and uncertainty — and the burning urge to whistle a happier tune . |
| 10 | We were you ever under any sort of direct pressure to keep the money |
| 11 | Under the Citizen 's Charter , we shall soon be able to identify much more precisely than ever before those schools which are delivering unacceptably low standards . |
| 12 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 13 | ‘ Just to demonstrate — if it were ever in any doubt — the total unsuitability of our present situation . |
| 14 | I do n't think he was ever in any position to keep the Russians au fait with American developments . |
| 15 | The three-year NCP investigation is believed to be the biggest ever in this country into alleged industrial espionage . |
| 16 | Elvis is the icon of the Fifties , and Jasper Johns ' flag is shit compared with Elvis and never ever in this world will have any relevance close to Elvis , ’ Koons says , defiantly . |
| 17 | The law , as ever in these areas , is unclear . |
| 18 | ‘ More closely than ever in these parts . |
| 19 | Overall Haslemere gave their best performance ever in these county age group championships , taking fifth position behind Leatherhead , Woking , Dorking and Cranleigh . |
| 20 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 21 | it is fair to say that in the case of er in the case of Alwyn , erm because of the special circumstances where we did n't actually use a clerk of works ever on that job |
| 22 | ‘ The offer price of 240p is spread over the longest instalment period ever on any privatisation . |
| 23 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 24 | Turrican II is possibly the greatest technical achievement ever on any computer . |
| 25 | Can and do , she thought , ever since that September of two years ago , before I was given in marriage , when Owen fired Ruthyn , and his men plundered Oswestry and Welshpool , and the king came storming through here and across the border with all his army , but never found any enemy to fight . |
| 26 | For you know , this is what he has said ever since that day . |
| 27 | ‘ One day , one happy day You appeared to me , And ever since that day I 've lived in trembling — Trembling with an unknown love , With a love like the heartbeat of the world , Mysterious and haughty , Both torment and bliss in my heart … . ’ |
| 28 | Ever since that event I have never taken a trolley off anyone , and have explained why if needed to and told as many people as possible about it . |
| 29 | The idea of controlling Gazzer , of making Gazzer afraid of him , excited him : it had been evolving in his mind ever since that afternoon 's walk with Marie down to the arcades . |
| 30 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |