Example sentences of "even [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central heating That were n't even on when I looked at it . |
| 2 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 3 | They liked him even less when they discovered he hated playing rugby , especially on cold winter mornings when the ground was as hard as concrete and the snow lay two feet deep . |
| 4 | Yeah but even so if you paid him forty eight pounds for an hour that 's still |
| 5 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |
| 6 | He was holding up even better than he had hoped . |
| 7 | She had seen his point of view and expressed it even better than he did . |
| 8 | This question allows for the possibility of an actual mistake , big or small , as well as acknowledging that you can always do even better than you did . |
| 9 | The names worked even better than I expected . |
| 10 | Now if Kemp had been held up , for some reason , for even longer than he 'd expected … for considerably longer than he 'd expected … |
| 11 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 12 | People marvelled at the way Lilly Foley ran such an elegant home when she had five rugby-playing lads to deal with , and marvelled even more that she had kept the handsome John Foley at her side . |
| 13 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 14 | She wished it even more after she dropped the message in the dead letter box , for there was one waiting to be collected . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |
| 16 | Well because you 'd have to pay even more if you did it privately . |
| 17 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 18 | It amused him even more and he looked down at her quizzically as she wrenched her arm from his grasp . |
| 19 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 20 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 21 | I howled even more when I saw that everyone was laughing at me , Andreas , my mother , various passers by . |
| 22 | I was so disgusted with myself that I wanted to make myself suffer even more when I did — as I knew I would — break my word . |
| 23 | Jenna jumped up , agitated even more when he moved over to her . |
| 24 | The shrieking sent shivers up Tallis 's spine , and Wyn-rajathuk paled even more as he straightened and stared , alarmed , through the lodge walls , towards the mortuary hill . |
| 25 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 26 | My own swollen hand seemed to hurt even more as I watched him . |
| 27 | Her pace slowed even more as she thought of the house dark and sour with grief . |
| 28 | I think that 'd go down bett or I mean even like when we did the pantomimes , you remember Cinderella we did ? |
| 29 | She wished even harder that she had gone with him . |
| 30 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |