Example sentences of "ever [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before I came here , I had my life all sorted out , I was happy — at least , as happy as I ever expected to be . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We both know he made far more from the caravan business than he ever admitted to . |
| 6 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 9 | That 's as close as we ever got to it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He did it at Kettering , at Cambridge and West Brom before he ever got to Manchester United . |
| 11 | He had lost his eye when he was a young child , and the nearest he ever got to France was a trip to Brighton . |
| 12 | Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes . |
| 13 | I wonder why you did n't phone your lawyer before I ever got to the front door . ’ |
| 14 | The nearest we ever got to Twickenham was Cardiff . ’ |
| 15 | Given that we rarely ever got to the bye-line , Sunderland never looked really troubled by this . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Do you ever got to church ? |
| 18 | She never ever referred to what had happened on the beach . |
| 19 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 20 | When we spoke I do n't think it ever occurred to him that anyone else could win , even though the Argentinian Ruiz had shot a fantastic 65 for the second round . |
| 21 | I do n't know if it ever occurred to me to regret my inability to have a child by Jean-Claude . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't suppose it ever occurred to you that I was jealous when I saw you with him last night ? ’ he said softly . |
| 23 | There were times when Ajayi considered that way out ; not as attractive then and there , but for when — if — there ever seemed to be no hope , at some time in the future . |
| 24 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 25 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 26 | If it ever came to making hard choices over monetary policy or economic policy where the needs of one region or country conflicted with those of Germany , it is fanciful to think that her priorities , as the self-styled ‘ motor ’ of Europe , would not prevail . |
| 27 | My father 's generation was not one accustomed to discussing and analysing in the way ours is and I believe the telling and retelling of this story was as close as my father ever came to reflecting critically on the profession he practised . |
| 28 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 29 | ‘ No one ever came to the gigs in Holland , but those that did were usually out of their heads . |
| 30 | If the matter ever came to court , the judge would estimate the amount that you would have earned , in the light of the evidence before him concerning the nature of your job . |