Example sentences of "[was/were] even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 2 | Erm , I should also say that bit about some of us were even gods , erm that also is erm there are some options there on translation erm you could also say men who were different and particular , that is we were and erm particular humans and we were gods . |
| 3 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 4 | You were even lip reading . |
| 5 | There were even birds with hooks embedded in their webbed feet . |
| 6 | Fresh water was brought in through leaden pipes built by Italian craftsmen , there were even privies , and underground streams cleaned the sewers . |
| 7 | There were even advantages in that he might be able to ‘ manage ’ the affair better from the inside . |
| 8 | There were even attempts by Anglican groups to prevent the Dissenters from enjoying the toleration they were offered after 1687 . |
| 9 | There were even giggles as this ( as he seemed to some of them ) funny little man with a funny voice urged the audience to abstain from fleshly lusts . |
| 10 | There were even handkerchiefs in various colour schemes and embroidered with the troupe 's name . |
| 11 | There were even reports from some respondents of panic buying on an old-fashioned scale . |
| 12 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |
| 13 | ( There were even reports of some of them being sent to bases in Iran well away from Allied bombing , much as had been done with civil aircraft in Amman in the 1980s . ) |
| 14 | After the damaging Westland affair and the loss of two senior Cabinet ministers , there were even Conservatives who thought that it might be time to change the leader . |
| 15 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 16 | Some of the guilds were quite large , especially in the greater towns and cities , and wealthy enough to have not only their own chantry priest but also their own altars within the church , and there were even instances when funds allowed for the building of an additional aisle as a guild chapel . |
| 17 | There were even areas marked ‘ unknown territory ’ , tropical jungles in the heart of concrete and clay . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I found that abortions were regularly carried out on women seven , eight , and even nine months pregnant , often against their will , and that there were even cases of officially-instigated infanticide . |
| 19 | There were even times when the massive outlet-pipe became blocked at the point where it burst from the hillside and through the tunnel wall . |
| 20 | There were even times when I sympathised with you . ’ |
| 21 | There were even moments when the surface softened a little — just enough for her to dabble her lovely black feet . |
| 22 | There were even demonstrations in Slovakia for an independent republic . |
| 23 | There were even inventories of his collection , with fabulous sums paid for a succession of sculptures , paintings , original scores and manuscripts or items of historical interest . |
| 24 | He and fellow Catholic lords began to murmur of an uprising against Elizabeth ; and there were even plans for Mary to marry the Duke of Norfolk , in the hope of producing an acceptable successor to the throne of England . |
| 25 | There were even nomes on this . |
| 26 | There were even grounds for John taking legal action against him . |
| 27 | There were even doubts over his availability for last month 's All Ireland semi-final , but he played and came through with flying colours . |
| 28 | There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . " |
| 29 | There were even mutterings last week that the Germany match should be scrapped because of the catalogue of games on the domestic front . |
| 30 | Although many household knights were men of free rather than noble birth — in Flanders there were even recruits from among the unfree , like the German ministeriales — the prince 's relatives and the sons of his neighbouring lords also found careers within their ranks . |