Example sentences of "and even [conj] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could argue , then , that by July 1949 the battle lines had been drawn in Southeast Asia , and even that they had been drawn unilaterally , by the US . |
| 2 | Such factors include their own personal characteristics , their social and political background , which newspapers they read , how much television news they watched , whether they watched television news on a particular day , and even whether they watched BBC or ITV on a particular day . |
| 3 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |
| 4 | The small airstrip was well away from the house and even before they turned to land a car had left the property and was heading out to meet them . |
| 5 | And even as they fouled up long-held theories on what was sexy , they gave a whole new dimension to perceptions of ‘ womanhood ’ . |
| 6 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 7 | They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do . |
| 8 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 10 | These plans did not always materialise and even when they did , they happened only slowly . |
| 11 | And even if they had n't told me , I would have known . |
| 12 | And even if they had , who could say that Christ had not died for them also ? |
| 13 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 14 | Well , it does n't open till May , but the Health and Safety Executive say that safety procedures still have n't been tested , and even if they had , would you go through the Tunnel ? |
| 15 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 16 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 17 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 18 | They could not , he pointed out , avoid a battle indefinitely and even if they defeated Cumberland 's army , estimated at 12,000 , the remnants would still bar their way to London , while Wade 's 9000 men would be undefeated in their rear . |
| 19 | Heathen savages are unlikely to belong to any church and even if they did there 's no blessing for a fool who takes his own life . ’ |
| 20 | No-one will deny — and even if they did , few would dare say so — that Clough has been a magnificently accomplished football manager , blessed with an alchemy denied to others . |
| 21 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 22 | The Wolvercote Tongue was insured for half a million dollars , and one of the safest ways of transferring it over to England had got to be on the person of the traveller : few people would entrust such an item to letter-post or parcel-post or courier-service ; and even if they did , the insurance-risk premium would be prohibitive . |
| 23 | and even if they did buy without a solicitors assistance , what was the system about sending them the letter which we 've looked at earlier which is at erm D one , five , two , remember this is the letter that goes to Mr solicitors assuming you get a very rare person who does his or her own conveyance |
| 24 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 25 | The barons were comparatively few in number ; the Church formally forbade them to marry their sixth cousins or any nearer relatives , and seriously attempted to enforce the prohibition on third cousins ; and even though they did not always accept this limitation , it meant that they looked far and wide in their own class for marriage alliances . |
| 26 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |