Example sentences of "have [adv] even [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 32 | Johnny had n't even flinched at the insult . |
| 33 | Yet Connors had n't even hinted at it . |
| 34 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 35 | I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help . |
| 36 | My immediate boss , Ed Grainger , had n't even heard of Harley and he is actually the man who runs the golf division for Martinez . |
| 37 | She had n't even heard of them , until this moment … |
| 38 | As they travelled through city stations , some he had n't even heard of — Peterborough , Grantham , Newark , York — crowds waved and cheered their heroes . |
| 39 | She had n't even looked at it . |
| 40 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 41 | I had n't even looked at her properly . |
| 42 | She had n't even looked at it . |
| 43 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 44 | I had n't even looked at who it was by . |
| 45 | Rokovssky , of course , knowing nothing about the use of latchcords in Walworth , had n't even looked for one . |
| 46 | At first he had n't even settled on first-person narration ; the voice from inside the frame is sometimes ‘ the chronicler 's ’ or ‘ the author 's ’ , sometimes ‘ mine ’ . |
| 47 | He listened , made soft encouraging noises , held the receiver an inch or two from his ear , and meanwhile noted that the writer , poor bastard , had n't even thought of altering the distinctive cross-bar of his small letter t . |
| 48 | Lorton had n't even thought of lunch . |
| 49 | Jack suddenly remembered that he had n't sought out Ho Chan at school ; he had n't even thought about it . |
| 50 | This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine . |
| 51 | Filmer had n't even glanced at me , still less had known me . |
| 52 | He had n't come near her , had n't even glanced in her direction . |
| 53 | He probably had n't even paid for it , just put it on his credit card . |
| 54 | Erm and the erm I saw John at lunchtime and I mentioned it to him because he , he said that , it had n't even occurred to me till then , because he said I 'm concentrating on the surveying side and I thought ha ha ha to you my friend . |
| 55 | He had n't even listened about the curtains . |
| 56 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 57 | I 've never even heard of Philip Glass ’ |
| 58 | Th I mean , I 've never even heard of the term clitoris , and a friend of mine thought her clitoris was actually her epiglottis , I mean it just got |
| 59 | I 've never even heard of him ! " |
| 60 | Our next destination was Queenstown , a tourist centre set amid mountains and lakes , and offering every conceivable kind of outdoor activity including some you 've never even heard of . |