Example sentences of "even [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was holding up even better than he had hoped . |
| 2 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |
| 3 | During painting , I often look at the picture through a mirror as it progresses , and sometimes even just after I 've drawn it , just to see if anything does n't quite look OK . |
| 4 | Now if Kemp had been held up , for some reason , for even longer than he 'd expected … for considerably longer than he 'd expected … |
| 5 | People marvelled at the way Lilly Foley ran such an elegant home when she had five rugby-playing lads to deal with , and marvelled even more that she had kept the handsome John Foley at her side . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |
| 7 | She wished even harder that she had gone with him . |
| 8 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |
| 9 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 10 | And even now that he has achieved all this he does n't stand still . |
| 11 | I still ca n't believe it — even now when I 've got the letter to prove it ! ’ |
| 12 | Now she stood , quite literally , on the threshold of a new life , hesitating , wondering even now if she had done the right thing . |
| 13 | Even before that I had put on some weight which did n't all drain away during my illness . |
| 14 | They scribes , but even then if you 've got somebody climbing up the top of a palette , shouting |
| 15 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |