Example sentences of "have [adv] even [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now he 's made Big Ben and he has n't even been to London to see it . |
| 2 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 3 | I 'd never even been on a train until I was past thirty and if you recall that was no joy-ride , simply a mercy dash to get Renée out of one of her scrapes . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd never even been to her house . |
| 5 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 6 | I 'd never even been in a car until I was twenty … |
| 7 | She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible . |
| 8 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 9 | He had not even been at the party . |
| 10 | He had come here on a misunderstanding ; believing that Wavebreaker had been at Murder Cay when in fact we had not even been within sight of that mysterious island . |
| 11 | She had not even been in the country long enough to register with a doctor . |
| 12 | He could n't believe that it would have wandered far when it had n't even been outside the stable for such a long time . |
| 13 | He had n't even been in the club the previous evening , which should have helped but had n't . |
| 14 | Come back dinner time and they were saying well no you see you ca n't just a borrow a car to go to dinner in , yeah that 'll be alright man and I had n't even been in it since Roy bought it back ! |
| 15 | You 're not English and you 've never even been to England . ’ |
| 16 | I 've never even been to Highgrove , and that 's the truth . |
| 17 | I 've never even been to Scotland and my mother was certainly never chased by a Scotsman . |
| 18 | People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’ |
| 19 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |
| 20 | ‘ I had never even been on a hat-trick before , ’ said Henderson . |
| 21 | I have scarcely even been without natives accompanying me who also shoot with facility . ’ |
| 22 | Everyone thinks lesbians are only in prison , but I know loads of women from the outside who have n't even been to prison who are lesbians . |
| 23 | I like boats even though I have n't even been on one . |