Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Even if they know what you want to know , they wo n't tell you . |
| 32 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 33 | Even if they get something that 's better than nothing |
| 34 | Even if they get me , I 'll go down fighting . ’ |
| 35 | But Dexter countered : ‘ Even if they get their vote , they are only one vote in 20 on the TCCB . ’ |
| 36 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 37 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 38 | Students who are normally resident in Northern Ireland are not normally eligible for postgraduate awards from award-giving bodies in Great Britain even if they undertook their first degree at a university or polytechnic in Great Britain . |
| 39 | Even if they say we want you to open Sundays now , I shall say no . |
| 40 | Even if they say it 's out |
| 41 | Even if they send me out , I will return . |
| 42 | I do n't think they can take any more , you know they 've left nothing there , but now the allies — I do n't think there is much , and even if they have they call them surgical , you know , sight bombing |
| 43 | I always write my friends ' books into my Harrods list , even if they give me a copy , and then I keep it out quite a time so that other people ca n't have it . |
| 44 | I sha n't take it if it 's something I do n't like you know even if they give it free . |
| 45 | Caroline says midwives do n't like to be bossy , and resist ‘ ordering ’ a woman to rest even if they feel she should . |
| 46 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 47 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 48 | It made him feel powerful , that was it , because he paid , he bought and , even if they hated him , they sold . |
| 49 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 50 | She was going to hit him , even if they threw her in jail again . |
| 51 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 52 | Parents that lack such feelings , and there are many , even if they do their duty ‘ for duty 's sake ’ are nonetheless thought to be morally deficient . |
| 53 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 54 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 55 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 56 | Heathen savages are unlikely to belong to any church and even if they did there 's no blessing for a fool who takes his own life . ’ |
| 57 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 58 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 59 | Even if they think we 're mice . |
| 60 | They will strive and fight for an end , even if they think there is only a small chance of success . |