Example sentences of "even [subord] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Huy was not sure if she was lying or not , but she read his thoughts and continued , ‘ Even if I knew it I would n't give it to you — and you may have enough clout to shut me down , but even Merymose could n't reach high enough to touch him . ’ |
2 | ‘ I would n't admit a mistake even if I made one , ’ Davis said . |
3 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
4 | He is too weak to bear the force of that … even if I felt it , and I am not a cruel woman . |
5 | I was n't sure I could speak even if I had anything to say . |
6 | ‘ I tell thee I ai n't got a bleedin' farthing and even if I had I 'm expected to be working . |
7 | However , I have n't got a copy to hand and even if I had I ca n't be arsed looking through it . |
8 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
9 | I did like Esmerelda ( even if I thought her name was a bit soppy ) and played with her a lot when she came to stay . |
10 | Even if I looked I would n't know got ta be fairly small pictures have n't they ? |
11 | Well I thought was a very decent man , even if I killed him . |
12 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
13 | " But even if I did it , " said Clara , " I would be stealing the state 's money , would n't I ? |
14 | ‘ I do n't know , and even if I did I would n't tell you . ’ |
15 | ‘ I do n't know what you 're talking about , but even if I did I would n't tell you anything . ’ |
16 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |
17 | Even if I tried it on I thought she would stop me . |
18 | Below me was Yet and , even if I bluffed my way past him , the monster lurked outside . |
19 | Even if I found one I do n't know how I 'd use it . |
20 | I could n't afford them even if I liked anything . ’ |
21 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
22 | I panicked even before I knew he was murdered . ’ |
23 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
24 | His body rolled away and uncovered the blood-spattered broken body of my poor dead sister , and even as I raised my hand to my mouth to stifle the scream , I saw the vicious green lizard dart into her hair . |
25 | But even as I heard it , I knew it was not a revolver . |
26 | It was meant to be a jocular observation but even as I said it I knew that I had transgressed some important Gyggle taboo . |
27 | But even as I made it I knew my accusation was ridiculous . |
28 | Even as I watched him , his neck went rigid . |
29 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
30 | Then , even as I talked I began to see , for almost the first time , some of the negative factors that I had suppressed or disregarded . |