Example sentences of "ever [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 2 | Nothing is entirely ‘ secret ’ nor was it ever intended to be so . |
| 3 | No price was in fact paid or ever intended to be paid . |
| 4 | Nor had he ever intended to . |
| 5 | Hartlepool was the only candidacy he applied for , or ever intended to . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | ‘ Before I came here , I had my life all sorted out , I was happy — at least , as happy as I ever expected to be . |
| 8 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 9 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |
| 10 | No two humans ever communicated to the fullest extent if they did not empathize with the mind of the other . |
| 11 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 12 | No such all-embracing promise was ever given to Australia 's aborigines , and Mr Keating gave no hint that one would be given now . |
| 13 | The figures in the article were not those that I have ever given to the House . |
| 14 | No instruction was ever given to Mrs Taylor that she must work on Sundays . |
| 15 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |
| 16 | Who would ever want to be a captain ? |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't ever want to be away from you again , ’ Maggie confessed , winding her arms around his neck . |
| 18 | But they did n't say they did n't ever want to ever drive a car again . |
| 19 | ‘ I already know you as well as I could ever want to . |
| 20 | If a case ever goes to court , the outcome may be unfavourable . |
| 21 | In these passages there is a feeling of necessary novocaine ; morally we are like the refrigerated tongue on the dentist 's chair , mouth open as wide as it ever goes to the instruments of pain , but speechless . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know if that shifty old man of mine is ever goin' to be a credit to 'is fam'ly ; I do n't know there 's any man that can spend more time doin' nothing than Archie can . |
| 23 | ‘ I just do n't want ever to go to church again . ’ |
| 24 | I was the youngest prisoner ever to go to Cookham Wood : now they do n't take anyone under twenty-one . |
| 25 | But nothing could ever compare to the delights of JTR 's landlady and accommodation … |
| 26 | We both know he made far more from the caravan business than he ever admitted to . |
| 27 | No satisfactory answer was ever received to that particular question . |
| 28 | And , should he ever graduate to captaincy , the most searching trial — of leading men who do not necessarily view the world as he does — is still perhaps ahead . |
| 29 | After twenty years this was the first time George had ever referred to what had happened . |
| 30 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |