Example sentences of "even as [pron] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee . |
| 2 | Even as they gathered their evidence the defence committee members knew they had no power , only the hope of influence . |
| 3 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 4 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 5 | For even as he recognised its horror he still retained the possibility that it might be available , as a way out . |
| 6 | Even as he sensed his incapacity to make such a choice , it was made for him . |
| 7 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 8 | Even as she died her foot stayed on the accelerator , leaving the wheels spinning in the white sand to carve out a 2ft deep hole . |
| 9 | Even as she offers her diagnosis , she very touchingly envelops it in a renewed insistence on how he was still , in 1935 , ‘ passionate and austere , : |
| 10 | Her voice was controlled even as she lifted her hand to silence Emily . |
| 11 | Even as she chained her bike up she noticed three different taxis drawing up and depositing their customers . |
| 12 | But even as she spoke her body was twisting , lifting almost of its own volition , offering itself to this new intimacy in greedy delight . |
| 13 | He could n't be much further from the truth — but , even as she opened her mouth to tell him so , some deep-down instinct stopped her in her tracks . |
| 14 | She would have continued to attack him further , but , even as she opened her mouth to tell him exactly what she thought of philandering , two-timing men who played around with their office staff , she heard Ross swearing violently under his breath . |
| 15 | She did turn her head then , but only to smile at David and marvel that he could look so happy ; but even as she watched his face seemed to grow colder and he nodded . |
| 16 | His body rolled away and uncovered the blood-spattered broken body of my poor dead sister , and even as I raised my hand to my mouth to stifle the scream , I saw the vicious green lizard dart into her hair . |
| 17 | Even as I put my talons down I pulled them away , for I sensed something was wrong , but it was quicker than I and with a loud metal sound like the closing of a cage gate it sprang shut . |
| 18 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
| 19 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |