Example sentences of "even [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Jezrael hauled herself up by the strappings on a crate : silver lights shone through the mists of twilight . |
| 2 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |
| 3 | He looked so downcast that even Angalo patted him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | Even Gregory recognized his weaknesses : however much of a royal virtue it might be , piety alone was not enough . |
| 5 | Indeed , not even Eratosthenes presented what could be considered a decent amount of information according to the standards of later times . |
| 6 | Even Napoleon found it expedient to buttress force by prescription , having antique gems implanted in his crown and terming it the crown of Charlemagne . |
| 7 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
| 8 | I think even Nigel thought he was on dodgy ground here , but it was worth a try . |
| 9 | I promised Fand I 'd bring her Undry , she thought ; but even Fand said she did n't think it would do any good … and there 's no point thinking about it because I just ca n't . |
| 10 | Even Nietzsche expected his future Supermen to form a community . |
| 11 | It seemed that people were often worse than even Jane thought they could be . |
| 12 | I dare say even Attila had his moments . ’ |
| 13 | Even Ethel used it . |
| 14 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 15 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 16 | One of the liberalizing facets of NEP was the effort to reconcile the Bolsheviks and local nationalists , and even Stalin endorsed it . |
| 17 | Even Job had his moment . |
| 18 | She was cursing poor old Reverend Marr up hill and down dale but I do n't reckon even grandma wanted him dead , ’ said the lad with relish . |
| 19 | Even Lancaster found his patience strained when Douglas told him how to play his part . |
| 20 | Even Auguste felt his voice lacked conviction , and his pupils to judge from their faces were similarly unconvinced . |
| 21 | Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more . |
| 22 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 23 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 24 | I think even Billy knew you had to sleep with somebody before that happened . |
| 25 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 26 | Even Quigley abandoned his dignity and had a go . |
| 27 | Max drew back the covering from the corpse , and even Lewis gave his second involuntary shudder of the night . |
| 28 | However , even Cockfield regarded it only as a courtesy title . |
| 29 | Nigel or I , sometimes both , cooked , and even friends tackled it from time to time . |
| 30 | Marian closed her eyes and even Allen averted his gaze and flinched . |