Example sentences of "but even [subord] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The butler had opened the door to announce them , but even before he had finished , Artemis 's father cut him short . |
| 2 | But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him . |
| 3 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 4 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 5 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |