Example sentences of "[vb mod] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one else must ever know , ’ Lilith warned . |
| 2 | As coach Roddan says : ‘ The race is so short that nothing can be allowed to go wrong — and nothing must ever distract them . ’ |
| 3 | As Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ Honour must ever be done to the Tsar and Russian nation for the noble ardour and loyalty with which they hurled themselves into the war . ’ |
| 4 | No one must ever ask where another rabbit was and anyone who asked , " Where ? " — except in a song or a poem — must be silenced . |
| 5 | No one must ever see it again . |
| 6 | His Zoonomia must ever be cherished for its poetic delights as well as its remarkable meditations on the origins of things . |
| 7 | In any event , I chose this route and I must ever take the consequences . ’ |
| 8 | None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience . |
| 9 | The protestant refugees , inhabitants , and garrison of the city , which was built deliberately with a wall lest a catholic rebellion should ever occur , held the city for fifteen weeks against a poorly equipped catholic Irish army led by James II , the exiled king . |
| 10 | No element , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) should ever pretend to be more or less than itself . |
| 11 | The scepticism follows because if we are confined in experience to the contents of our own minds alone , it would seem to be impossible that we should ever come to know anything about — or even come intelligibly to think about — things outside our own minds . |
| 12 | In his sermon , Dr Runcie said : ‘ We should ever recognise the scandal that Anglicans and Roman Catholics must celebrate two eucharists to make one memorial of our redemption on the day of our Lord . ’ |
| 13 | It now seemed extraordinary that so remote and irrelevant a place should ever loom so large in national and international affairs . |
| 14 | The idea of a God-given nature and destiny had the corollary that nothing so essentially predetermined could or should ever change . |
| 15 | No consideration of cultural and/or racial difference should ever neglect the sheer negativity , evil , and inferiority with which ‘ the other ’ has been conceived throughout history . |
| 16 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 17 | He had never had a dog and now that one of his daughters was married and the other a student at drama school , he saw no reason why he should ever give one house-room . |
| 18 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 19 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 20 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 21 | He remembered that his wife had one precious jewel , and he did what no man should ever do — he went and gave his wife 's only jewel to the beggar . |
| 22 | A mini-breakdown was less of a black mark than a criminal record if he should ever choose to emigrate . |
| 23 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 24 | There are those , however , who find it objectionable that one person should ever be permitted to take the life of another . |
| 25 | The chemist Compte ( 1798–1857 ) expressed it in quite brutal terms : ‘ If mathematical analysis should ever hold prominent place in chemistry — an aberration which is happily almost impossible — it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think we should ever agree about that , ’ said Robyn . |
| 27 | No older person should ever ask you to keep a kiss , hug or touch , secret . |
| 28 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |
| 29 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 30 | It 's a great mistake to get yourself into a state of nervous excitement all the time … nobody should ever overdo it you know … you should read Jane Austen and then you 'll feel better . |