Example sentences of "even if he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if he had been out shooting , he would n't slip into a lady 's bedroom in muddy hunting boots . ’ |
| 2 | The tournament doctor may be able to reduce the dislocation by twisting and pulling on the injured limb , but even if he is successful , that is the end of your day 's competition . |
| 3 | There was very little of his own faith to be seen in the city , even if he had wished to become involved . |
| 4 | Still , he was married , even if he did n't look it . |
| 5 | I gave them money , full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person , even if he was a beggar . |
| 6 | That would automatically rule Senna out of the championship , even if he wins the final two races in Japan and Australia and the title would go to his team-mate , Alain Prost . |
| 7 | But , even if he wanted the job , his politics would probably rule him out . |
| 8 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 9 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 10 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 11 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 12 | Even if he was , I ca n't see he could get that flush driving loads of irons and heaters up to Leeds and Scotland a couple of times a week . |
| 13 | Even if he did , he ai n't following me . |
| 14 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 15 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 16 | I wondered if he would teach the right things and even if he knew enough himself ! |
| 17 | He does n't smoke or drink , and even if he wanted to , two heart attacks and a by-pass operation have made the decision for him . |
| 18 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 19 | At tea-ti me the next day he picked up Catherine at her flat , noticing that she was looking rested and pretty even if he was feeling jaded and disaffected . |
| 20 | Even if he stands aside , which is unlikely , he will want to retain the privilege of picking his successor . |
| 21 | It may not be money that he wants ; and even if he would be satisfied with money , it may be very hard to say what would be a fair compensation for his loss , and a jury may not be the most suitable body for assessing it . |
| 22 | They do not reach the true fundamentalist , because even if he read them , he would be left quite unmoved because James Barr 's theology does not give a viable and positive alternative to fundamentalism . |
| 23 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 24 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 25 | — And even if he has got his sights set on Bella 's money , I 'll fix that . |
| 26 | ‘ Even if he does n't send me to the Glasshouse , I 'm done for . |
| 27 | So it was a husband 's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy . |
| 28 | Even if he was able to create this myth out of his own life . ’ |
| 29 | Once again the rule was that Nice Girls Did n't — certainly not without the understanding that there was a ‘ moral ’ engagement with their partner , even if he had not yet bought the ring or made the announcement . |
| 30 | He sensed that even if he stopped pedalling , it would still somehow compel him forward . |