Example sentences of "even [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And Robina would not take a taxi , even if we had seen one . ’ |
2 | You know , even if we had lost the Cup , it would still have been a very good year for French players . |
3 | I signed a two-year contract and would have honoured that , even if we had missed the play-offs . |
4 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |
5 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
6 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
7 | Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport , we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway , and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming . |
8 | Even before we had left the outskirts of Makassar , Abu grinned into my face and asked , " In your country , chickens fly ? " |
9 | It has always been my hope that he did n't trouble to bestir himself even when we had gone out of sight . |
10 | Even though we had explained to him in a small business initially , he was going to be the salesman , he was going to be the marketing director , he was going to be everything . |
11 | Oh yeah , we raced just the same even though we had to do it early , so that some of them leave , and we started at sometimes half past eleven . |
12 | We improve our operating margins , reduced our bad debts , and even though we had to make some reductions in numbers , the reorganisation costs were down on 1991 . |