Example sentences of "[adv] even [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't have been able to see well enough even to lock for them . |
| 2 | By choosing varieties which are grafted on dwarfing rootstocks where these are available ( cherries , apricots , plums , peaches , pears , apples ) , together with less vigorous varieties of others , trees can be kept to a more manageable size , some small enough even to grow in large pots or in a greenhouse . |
| 3 | Its over 2 legs so even allowing for a ‘ lukic ’ of a game , we should get thru , and maybe if the season has nt got going by then it will give us the start . |
| 4 | Month followed month without news — we clung to every shred of hope — was he a prisoner , or perhaps even hidden by the French Resistance ? |
| 5 | This could be very beautiful and perhaps even destined for your local church . |
| 6 | If you feel very inhibited by the artificiality of the situation you will give a very inaccurate impression of the sort of person you really are , perhaps even overcompensating for nerves by being too gregarious and obvious and making it clear that you are not good at handling yourself in a social situation . |
| 7 | Now nobody would believe me or perhaps even speak to me . |
| 8 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 9 | At first he had suggested it might be fairer to everyone if he were to leave Kentucky and find work elsewhere — perhaps even return to England — but Cora-Beth had succeeded in making him see that there was absolutely no need for him to do so . |
| 10 | Feral goats have inhibited the island of 150 square kilometres for at least 100 years , but unlike the exploding colonies of goats in some of the Galapagos Islands , the Aldabra goats have remained stable and perhaps even declined in recent years . |
| 11 | She had left the two of them to duel , not even acting as referee , waiting for them to tire , perhaps even to appeal to her . |
| 12 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 13 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 14 | Are such perceptions accurate , distorted or partial and to what extent do they enable public sector staff to meet , merge with , miss or perhaps even collide with the aspirations of their local groups ? |
| 15 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 16 | I may have to spend a lot of my time in Scotland now — perhaps even look for a Scottish constituency — and your work is in London . ’ |
| 17 | It seems Freud and perhaps even wanted to er , vent their anger on Wilson , because of his failures concerning the war and its aftermath . |
| 18 | Then she realised that her uncle would have entered the church through a side door connecting with the vestry , while her aunt , who enjoyed rather poor health , would not have set foot outside even to take in the milk . |
| 19 | The habit of reading the paper backwards even spread to the quality press . |
| 20 | ‘ Twinky ’ , however , without question the fairest and most sporting player ever to don an Athletico shirt , was full of remorse and insisted that the referee , who had not even blown for a foul , send him off . |
| 21 | ‘ What , have I to strip myself before you 'll cry enough ? ’ said the deliberate , amused voice , not even blown after all this tussling . |
| 22 | At the hearing there is a right of audience for counsel or for the agent — usually exercised only by counsel , and indeed sometimes the parliamentary agent is not even involved at the inquiry stage . |
| 23 | This is compounded when it ‘ not only exists for private consumption , but is publicly displayed … [ or ] forced on the attentions of those who have not even volunteered to be voyeurs ’ ( para 7.7 ) . |
| 24 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 25 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 26 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 27 | He could not even stand on it . |
| 28 | ‘ She could not even stand by herself yet she has has been the victim of a most brutal assault in her own bed . |
| 29 | Built around a supremely non-standard hardware configuration , costly to acquire and complex to use , it was not even supported by a steady subsequent flow of new , compatible software so the investment in the hardware could be amortised across a range of classroom applications . |
| 30 | This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better . |