Example sentences of "even [subord] he [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me he 's infallibly able to recognize women even if he 's only seen them once . |
| 2 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 3 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 4 | He was kind , sympathetic and understanding , even if he was slightly reserved . |
| 5 | Even if he was still paying off a mortgage , he had to be making at least £2,500 a year out of us , not counting the fact that the property had quadrupled in value . |
| 6 | It was heaven to be in Roman 's arms , even if he was only playing the part of groom to her bride . |
| 7 | Wycliffe watched her , dreamy-eyed ; it was impossible to say whether he was interested or not , even whether he was really listening . |
| 8 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 9 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 10 | The second problem is that , even when he is directly involved , Butman never gets under the skin of either characters or company . |
| 11 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 12 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |
| 13 | He has a good eye for passing and can play with both feet ( sort of ) even though he is right footed . |
| 14 | I said he wanted some of his favourite French wine — there 's an envoy from the Chancellor in with him to-night , so it rang true enough , even though he 's never sent me to bring it before . ’ |
| 15 | Last week the tour selectors picked the 6ft 5in 17st back-row forward as their first choice blind-side flanker for the opening Test against the All Blacks , even though he was originally picked as a No 8 . |
| 16 | Suddenly Holden turned his machine-gun on the onlookers and fired , scattering them in all directions and scaring them to death even though he was only firing blanks . |
| 17 | She was really pleased when she came back and found him fighting fit , even though he was still using one wing as a crutch to support his crooked leg . |
| 18 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |