Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the church , the blacks have no hymnbooks , and we are told that even if they had them they probably could not read them , showing that the blacks are oppressed and have no opportunity of an education . |
| 2 | They do not reach the true fundamentalist , because even if he read them , he would be left quite unmoved because James Barr 's theology does not give a viable and positive alternative to fundamentalism . |
| 3 | Hindley did not care what they did , as long as they kept out of his way , and they did not care even if he punished them . |
| 4 | Although few would accept a Trabant now even if you paid them , the spluttering papier-maché two-stroke still strikes an affectionate chord . |
| 5 | If you 're not a member of the club and you 're not accepted the rituals and people do n't like you , they wo n't tell you and as a result you wo n't be an effective hunter , you wo n't be able to support many wives even if you wanted them and if you have wives what they needed , because if a man does n't feed his wives they , they , they all eventually get up and go , they 'll say two fingers you know , you ca n't feed us . |
| 6 | Even before it opened they had become emanations of the State , a branch of the machinery of government . |
| 7 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 8 | Then he was clinging to them , even as he felt them tear loose from the rock . |
| 9 | Even as he grouped them , he shook his head : what did he really know about these people ? |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation . |
| 12 | consolidated itself as sovereign subject by defining its colonies as ‘ Others ’ , even as it constituted them , for purposes of administration and the expansion of markets , into programmed near-images of that very sovereign self . |
| 13 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , whereas over half of the sample ( 57 per cent ) admitted to always or mostly continuing to drink even when they knew they were intoxicated , at the end of the course 60 per cent said this rarely or never occurred . |
| 15 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 16 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 17 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 18 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 19 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 20 | You know I said they 're all fantastically healthy and yet there are n't any old folks even though we thought they travelled around together in a group ? |
| 21 | Accepting the only logical course of action the robots had shut down the machine , even though it meant they too sank into inertia as a consequence . |
| 22 | According to one of the skippers , each hunting trip cost on average over US$130 more than the crew received for the catch — the fishermen were simply carrying on a proud and noble tradition , even though it cost them money . |
| 23 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 24 | so was I , even though I failed them . |