Example sentences of "[noun sg] even as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov held her close ; marvelling at her selfless courage even as he reproached her . |
| 2 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 3 | He did n't , because he was holding a towel over his hand , and the towel was turning a bright red even as he stood . |
| 4 | Dr Neil had seen McAllister 's face change even as he spoke so carelessly to her . |
| 5 | Such a conflict of conversational goals is the domain of pragmatics and will be dealt with later , but its seriousness is strongly implied by Anderson 's very flawed linguistic performance even as he resorts to a higher lexical register to excuse his actions . |
| 6 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 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 | Narrative is suddenly , and once again , the blood and guts of fiction , and Waugh 's remark that ‘ the exuberant men are extinct ’ was out of date even as he wrote , though only just . |
| 9 | They were light ; he was aware of the fact even as he stared at Mrs Patten . |