Example sentences of "even [conj] it [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | even if it was snatched back privatised all the money would of gone ! |
| 2 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 3 | Even if it was found later it would hardly cause comment . |
| 4 | This was strong stuff , even if it was wrapped up as mere journalistic conjecture , and obviously Toby knew or suspected something . |
| 5 | She had decided not to risk using the electric light , even supposing it was switched on , since a light from the front of the Rectory would be visible from the road and , therefore , news to the whole village . |
| 6 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 7 | One recently refused to fly at all without two pilots aboard , even though it was pointed out to him that there was only one set of controls . |
| 8 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 9 | Even though it 's hundreds of miles from anywhere and I did n't get home till 3am , even though it was pissing down and freezing cold , and even though we lost , I still enjoyed meself . |
| 10 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 11 | Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right . |