Example sentences of "[adv] he ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seldom in the house except to eat or sleep and when he was all he ever did was yell , ‘ Get the tea . |
| 2 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 3 | ‘ Did not he ever show himself a loyal supporter of the late king your husband ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Did n't 'e ever find out ? ’ the carman asked . |
| 6 | Did n't he ever stop talking , poking his nose in ? |
| 7 | Making Iris voice carefully casual , he asked : ‘ Does n't he ever ask where you 're going when you sneak out on Sunday afternoons leaving him to look after the child ? ’ |
| 8 | Does n't he ever get frightened ? |
| 9 | Did n't he ever write to your mother at some time or other ? ’ and she said , ‘ I … |
| 10 | Does n't he ever think ‘ Enough is enough . |
| 11 | Why does n't he ever ask ? |
| 12 | Has n't he ever let slip any little hint about who it might have been ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Is n't he ever robbed ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Did n't he ever do anything good for you ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did n't he ever buy me anything ? |
| 16 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 17 | How he ever grew up as decent as he is , I do n't know . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ How he ever got away with that I do n't know . |
| 19 | ‘ You knew very well what you were doing , ’ he replied , not giving her an inch of himself , wondering how he ever could have desired her . |
| 20 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 21 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 22 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 23 | He had hundreds of shirts and why he ever wanted me to iron them I 'll never know . |
| 24 | Grierson was a West Highland Scot , as was immediately evident from his accent , an accent which he never attempted to conceal for the excellent reason that he saw no earthly reason why he ever should . |
| 25 | He had never been an impressive priest — dispensing sacraments , sermons and whist-drive announcements with the same patient ennui , like a weary shopkeeper who has forgotten why he ever started to sell . |
| 26 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |
| 27 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 28 | With George 's anarchic tendencies I often wondered why he ever chose to work in such a highly structured and formal setting as the organisation . |
| 29 | Why he ever enjoyed working with this strange , often unsympathetic , superficially quite humourless man , well , he never quite knew . |
| 30 | Why he ever bothered with them ? |