Example sentences of "even as [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even as he did there was a knock on the door and he was on his feet again instantly . |
| 32 | Even as he grouped them , he shook his head : what did he really know about these people ? |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 35 | And he , even as he turned his damp face towards me , pink and stupid in his unbuttoned uniform , could only be Casey , rooted in my dreams now , the same leering grin that will haunt me for years . |
| 36 | But even as he spoke he doubted if Excepcionales Chicas would , when the plain Excepcionales was a stand-by , his favourite being Albeans or Invincibles . |
| 37 | ‘ You leave her … the fuck … alone , ’ Gentle gasped , knowing even as he spoke he had no way of enforcing this edict in his present state . |
| 38 | Even as he spoke he knew that there were circumstances under which that argument would be invalid . |
| 39 | ‘ I think it 's all right , ’ responded Floy , warily , but even as he spoke he was wondering whether it was all right , and whether they might n't be better simply to walk back through the forest and on to the road . |
| 40 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 41 | But even as he admonished her , he was hugging her close . |
| 42 | And so he hugged his loneliness to himself even as he bemoaned it . |
| 43 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 44 | And even as he watched it blurred . |
| 45 | Even as he found it , it went dull then cut out again , as though there was a bad connection . |
| 46 | He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | With what remained of her objective consciousness Louisa strove to tell herself that this encounter was not of her reality , not of her willing … but even as she struggled she felt herself drawn under the influence of a mind at once alien and familiar — a mind resolute to lacerate its own fine sensibility , and with a perverse , intellectual sang-froid . |
| 50 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 51 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 52 | She had deluded herself ; she had believed that innocence of spirit and a devout purpose were adequate guides through this treacherous domain , but the facts were clear enough now : she had diminished mystery to pious platitude , and some devious element at work in the deeps of her imagination was scorning her efforts even as she made them … |
| 53 | But even as she thought it , she knew she would n't go . |
| 54 | But , even as she thought it , she rejected the question and felt a surge of anger go darting through her . |
| 55 | 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 , : |
| 56 | Her voice was controlled even as she lifted her hand to silence Emily . |
| 57 | Even as she heard her own voice she was horrified by what it was saying , but somehow could n't stop herself , even though it went completely against the grain to tell such blatant lies . |
| 58 | Maggie knew , even as she heard it , that Phoebe did not mean anything of the sort ; it was the kind of thing that Rachel dragged you into saying . |
| 59 | When the old man had wandered upstairs again , with a book under his arm , Clara whispered " Who Was that ? " and even as she Whispered she realized that it could be no other than the book shops owner , and added hastily , " That must be A. I Warbley , I suppose ? " |
| 60 | For even as she said it she knew that they would . |