Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | even though you know Even although you know it . |
| 32 | Practise writing even although you think you 're rotten at it . |
| 33 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 34 | When the dust finally settled on the day 's play , the Stoddard Captain , showing no reluctance to collect the Buchanan Cup on behalf of Stoddards , even although he had played for Lyles , took the opportunity to thank both Eddie Docherty and Ian McCulloch of Lyles for the splendid organisation of the event . |
| 35 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 36 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 37 | ‘ Worse even than it appeared , ’ Doctor Staples said knowingly . |
| 38 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 39 | He was magnificent , larger even than I had expected , looking almost red against the pale dry grass . |
| 40 | And more crossed even than I knew . |
| 41 | ‘ I tell you , boy , we are engaged with more even than I knew . |
| 42 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 43 | And she realizes it herself too , better even than I do . |
| 44 | ‘ Better even than you promised me . |
| 45 | It was going to be worse even than she had feared . |
| 46 | Even in the fading light it impressed her , if only because it was worse even than she had imagined — or Lionel had said . |
| 47 | They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back . |
| 48 | There was a danger of people having short memories , and forgetting even that they had taken part in the war … |
| 49 | One could argue , then , that by July 1949 the battle lines had been drawn in Southeast Asia , and even that they had been drawn unilaterally , by the US . |
| 50 | She felt dreadfully guilty letting them down about the Rome and Athens trip , but even that they smoothed over , told her not to worry . |
| 51 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 52 | Some would argue even that she casts a heavy shadow over present negotiations on the political future of South Africa . |
| 53 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 54 | Yeah , even that you 've |
| 55 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
| 56 | ‘ It was n't even that I felt unhappy . |
| 57 | Even that I believed , but the lipstick on his underpants ‘ administered by a gay dwarf in drag , brushing past me in the men 's showers ’ was a bit much . |
| 58 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 59 | In addition , there is no protection against the old device of refusing admission to a solicitor ( or doctor ) and asserting afterwards that the prisoner did not ask for him or even that he had refused to see him . |
| 60 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |