Example sentences of "for ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among some of his frescoes there are some which are imprinted on the memory for ever . ’ |
| 2 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 3 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 4 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 5 | I have put away my brushes for ever , he said . |
| 6 | Let those who will fall into that space , and fall for ever . |
| 7 | The horror of bachelorhood which condemns you to arid thought for ever , and the horror of marriage , which condemns you to lies and hypocrisy for ever . |
| 8 | The horror of bachelorhood which condemns you to arid thought for ever , and the horror of marriage , which condemns you to lies and hypocrisy for ever . |
| 9 | But why should one incident put him off for ever ? |
| 10 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 11 | I wish you could stay here for ever . |
| 12 | It 's like stumbling across a whole world that you thought had gone for ever . ’ |
| 13 | For ever . |
| 14 | Praised be the Lord who is to be praised for ever and ever . |
| 15 | They participated in it blindly , as if it would last for ever . |
| 16 | Supplanted , perhaps ; cheated ( by fate ) probably ; but now self-absolved from its responsibility , though to bear for ever in his mind the trauma of a calling from which he had somehow been disinherited . |
| 17 | It would indeed hound him for ever , and inspire the many references in dialogue to his father which we shall encounter , and his ambiguous sense of direction and self-fulfilment . |
| 18 | I no longer had to push away the picture of Saad laid out on the floor , or banish from my imagination the sound of his huge voice , louder than the roaring of the wind , dumb for ever . |
| 19 | The memory stays with you for ever and you 'll always be more careful . |
| 20 | But by 1985 the sad reality had to be faced that — so far as InterCity was concerned — the market had changed , probably for ever . |
| 21 | Another gate closed for ever , another genuine unspoilt area ruined . |
| 22 | Whatever the future holds for him , Mr Pozsgay has already ensured that his name will for ever be written in Hungarian history books . |
| 23 | Peter 's not going to live for ever . |
| 24 | Although a deserter , his estimation of the Khmer Rouge was still high : ‘ The Khmer Rouge can survive in the jungle for ever ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 26 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
| 27 | But if players have their way , as they have in Berlin , the age of the megalomaniac conductor , the age of Karajan , may be over for ever . |
| 28 | But the moment alone was enough to prove that the Soviet authorities are sincere in their efforts to resolve the riddle of a romantic , mythical figure who single-handedly saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest before disappearing for ever , at the start of 1945 , into the darkness of Stalin 's Russia . |
| 29 | But he can not be relied upon for ever . |
| 30 | The degree of craft , the degree of inspiration , are the measure whereby they can be valued ; through these are achieved , consciously or inadvertently , the heights and depths of spiritual expression whereby they are ‘ a joy for ever ’ . |