Example sentences of "had even " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to the school with considerable amateur experience of Shakespeare with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and had even played in a real theatre in Oxford . |
| 2 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 3 | Leonard had even met him briefly in 1949 , but this meeting at McGill was the one which quickly developed into a strong and mutual respect , a lifelong friendship . |
| 4 | His books and clothes , all his things were gone , he had even stolen bits of china and a lamp . |
| 5 | Prior to the establishment of the Federation Cup by the ILTF ( now the ITF ) in 1962 , the former US player , Margaret du Pont , together with former Australian pro , Thelma Coyne Long and supported by the USTA , had drawn up plans for their own women 's international team competition and had even offered to donate a cup for the event . |
| 6 | The party had even colluded with the Tories to attempt to thwart SNP assaults on ‘ Thatcher 's right to ruin Scotland ’ . |
| 7 | Oxford begin the build-up to their Varsity defence with a bigger overseas influence than they had even last season . |
| 8 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |
| 9 | One workers ' meeting had even suggested that it would be better to shoot Lenin or Trotsky rather than Patriarch Tikhon . |
| 10 | They contained a large middle class , which together with dissatisfied refugees and war workers from the fighting zone in the World War , had often expressed dislike of central intervention , and had even encouraged local autonomy . |
| 11 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 12 | They were made of City Gent-type striped cloth and had even more violently pegged trousers . |
| 13 | Lisa , who had first noticed this oddity in Rachel , had found it hilarious , had even teased Rachel about it directly . |
| 14 | Since the Second Vatican Council she had even been removed from the Universal Canon , by ignorant prelates who — full of their scientific and rationalist approach to the institutions of sanctity — insisted she had never existed . |
| 15 | It was the first Christmas anybody had even been absent and Moran seemed to be painfully aware of Luke 's absence . |
| 16 | She considered writing to Luke in London — she had even taken notepaper out — but realized that it would be directly confronting Moran . |
| 17 | It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer . |
| 18 | It had even been the topic of his first public speech in 1968 . |
| 19 | Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity . |
| 20 | And Robert McNamara , the new US Secretary of Defence , had even less of a feel for the special relationship than the President . |
| 21 | You with a mind full only of natural & unembarrassing thoughts , & of me , probably awoke early and remembered & rejoiced ; perhaps you had even prepared for it , & went happy walks , singing , garlanded . |
| 22 | He had even won a writing prize while in prison for a story on Joplin 's last days . |
| 23 | Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year . |
| 24 | Perhaps it had even been home-cooked . |
| 25 | He had even saved a little . |
| 26 | She had even had some published in a horrible feminist magazine . |
| 27 | She had heard people say it often enough — she had even said it herself — but she had not realized what it would really be like . |
| 28 | Doyle laughed before he had even finished . |
| 29 | Had even Mrs Girdlestone known about it ? |
| 30 | She had even felt her mouth begin to twist itself into a grin … . |