Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 2 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 3 | Even if you are resorting to it out of nervousness or fear that you have bad breath it will create a very negative impression on the interviewer . |
| 4 | Talking ( even if it is talking to yourself or your dog or your prize marrow ) nourishes and builds your aural memory-bank and uses your own ‘ speech experience ’ which aids speechreading . |
| 5 | Even while it was happening to me , I could n't believe it . |
| 6 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 7 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 8 | Even when I was going to school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I realised that I was able to get by with just the gigs . |
| 9 | Even when you 're playing to audiences that consist entirely of journalists , A&R men and general music biz types ? |
| 10 | Even when she was flying to me from various positions , the slightest disturbance in the landscape might distract her attention . |
| 11 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 12 | Frantic appeals for help kept going out to Rome — Rome was still the patron , the protector , the fortress , even when she was falling to pieces herself . |
| 13 | Certainly this limpidity is not within Eliot 's reach even when he is trying to be limpid , as in ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ; , and of course the experience of a simple person enduring a commonplace and unavoidable sorrow — is such as Eliot could never manage , early or late . |
| 14 | Even when he was trying to be a criminal , the low moral fibre shone through . |
| 15 | The ‘ dark'-moon state may often be recognized when you are in conversation with a woman , by a lack of signalled response even though she is listening to you . |
| 16 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 17 | Even though you are talking to an old nun ! ’ |