Example sentences of "even [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 2 | And she realizes it herself too , better even than I do . |
| 3 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 4 | He was magnificent , larger even than I had expected , looking almost red against the pale dry grass . |
| 5 | And more crossed even than I knew . |
| 6 | ‘ I tell you , boy , we are engaged with more even than I knew . |
| 7 | CAN I REFER TO ACET EVEN IF I AM USING OTHER SERVICES ? |
| 8 | Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight . |
| 9 | Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly , I could n't have gone far , and anyway I did n't mind walking . |
| 10 | For Raskolnikov is incorrigibly patrician and rare at heart ( which is one reason why the Epilogue does not convince ) , even if I have overstressed the Hamletish side to him . |
| 11 | And even if I had , I would not have begun copying them . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't admit a mistake even if I made one , ’ Davis said . |
| 13 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 14 | Even if I have n't seen the labyrinth , at least I 've smelt and heard Ariadne 's home landscape . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if I am sleeping , ’ she told me ‘ at 12 o'clock at night he comes and pulls the quilt off and starts beating me ’ . |
| 16 | The last thing he said to me on Wednesday , ’ Jack ’ ’ he said , ‘ I 'll get along to your rave-up on Friday even if I have to knock the guts out of her . |
| 17 | ‘ I sha n't be going far — even if I go at all . ’ |
| 18 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 19 | Even if I seem often cold in my letters and not noticing your words . |
| 20 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 21 | Or , even if I did , that things would be different . ’ |
| 22 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 23 | It would have been madness to pull it out , even if I could have faced doing it . |
| 24 | It was a compulsion I 'd starved for , and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever . |
| 25 | The party 's best-known candidate , Alessandra Mussolini , the Duce 's grand-daughter , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm very happy for the MSI , even if I still do n't know if I 've been elected ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I ride a mountain bike around the roads and my wife , Sandra , will drag me out even if I am shattered , ’ he says . |
| 27 | The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation . |
| 28 | I 've got as good a nose as any other man on the paper , even if I do specialize in science . |
| 29 | He stopped then and after a pause said deliberately , ‘ Even if I held that point of view . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Even if I do play girls in their twenties , and just about get away with it . ’ |