Example sentences of "[adj] even [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 32 | You wo n't be late even if you insist on walking into town rather than accept a lift off me . |
| 33 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 34 | These can be just as useful even if you do not have the benefit of an instant peer group with whom to celebrate or commiserate on your shared experience . |
| 35 | I do n't think they 'd have been impressed even if he 'd told them |
| 36 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 37 | Nevertheless , in a group of neurotic patients , a placebo was effective even when they knew the pills they were taking were inert . |
| 38 | Wallace was great even when he took a knock early in the 2nd half ( Strandli should have been on sooner ) . |
| 39 | Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him . |
| 40 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 41 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 42 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 43 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 44 | Nevertheless , happiness is difficult to find , and it seems man is unable to remain happy even when he finds a way of living that seems to suit his psychic constitution — a combination of biological givens , and the consequences of the individual 's resolution of his conflicts during his personal development . |
| 45 | I 'm so hungry even though I 've eaten I feel like I ai n't eaten nothing . |
| 46 | Anorexics have a false idea of their own appearance , seeing themselves as fat even when they have become painfully thin . |
| 47 | Shuffled from one power group to another during the regencies of his childhood , he was not safe even when he became a fully fledged king . |
| 48 | So it was not surprising that George found that nobody would accept the dangerously exposed position of Prime Minister and that Pitt was indispensable even though he had no majority in the Commons . |
| 49 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 50 | The clock keeps going as usual even as you go through the boundary . |
| 51 | ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process . |
| 52 | The Lords held that the boys were guilty even though they did not realise that what they were doing might harm others . |
| 53 | The accused may be guilty even though he does not in ordinary language obtain a service . |
| 54 | While he was on the correct route he was not guilty even though he intended to steal . |
| 55 | This type of manslaughter gets its name from the requirement that the victim must have died as a result of an unlawful act and liability is constructive because the accused is guilty even though he did not foresee death . |
| 56 | The accused is guilty even though he did not intend , nor was he reckless as to the full actus reus , GBH . |
| 57 | If the accused leaves without paying because he is absent-minded , he is not liable , and remains not guilty even though he discovers his mistake afterwards . |
| 58 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 59 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 60 | Faced by such diverse interpretations of the new adversary , the Reagan Presidency in 1985 , rather than return to Kissinger 's ideal of ‘ linkage ’ in a period of détente , decided to pursue a policy of ‘ constructive confrontation ’ with Moscow , accepting that certain agreements with Russia were possible even if she remained a rival on the world stage . |