Example sentences of "even [noun prp] could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did . |
| 2 | Even Cockerton could not escape progress and in 1860 John Prior began building the street of houses that still bear his name . |
| 3 | Even Shelford could not work them out of that one . |
| 4 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 5 | The absence of rests can often give a dull , plodding effect , which even Bach could not avoid . |
| 6 | Even Ken could n't keep his mind on the action . |
| 7 | Even Maxton could not have worked for long with the Communists whose infiltration he had done so much to resist . |
| 8 | Even Hazel could not have said a word for his life . |
| 9 | The house was so run down that even Anna could n't afford to do anything about it and she never liked it much . |
| 10 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 11 | He had so many wives that there was no counting them and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover and El-ahrairah was the father of them all . " |
| 12 | Even Casanova could n't have done more in the circumstances . |
| 13 | Even Cato could not conceal a grudging sympathy for him . |
| 14 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 15 | Even Alec could n't believe the transformation . |