Example sentences of "[not/n't] even [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 2 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 3 | The males of Tidarren are so small that they can not even carry their full complement of mating implements and consequently amputate one of their two pedipalps . |
| 4 | The 28-year-old singer did not even wear a wedding dress for the service , which she kept secret from most of her friends . |
| 5 | We can not even conclude that we do not exist without presupposing that we do . |
| 6 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 7 | Indeed , the Federal Government did not even consult the bank before making its announcement on GMU . |
| 8 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | She did not even mention the military involvement in the rebellion or the officer widely believed to have led it , the cashiered Colonel Gregorio Honasan . |
| 10 | Some wills assumed this as an inexcludable entitlement and did not even mention it . |
| 11 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 12 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 13 | Neglected , possibly — there are only two recordings listed in The Classical Catalogue , and Alan Walker does not even mention the piece in his standard biography ( Faber : 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Archaeological records do not even mention Abraham , though is story fits well into what is known of his times ; but Omri was known far and wide to later generations . |
| 15 | Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Brandon of Oakbrook and Lord Templeman did not even mention the section . |
| 16 | I was disappointed that in his opening speech the Foreign Secretary did not even mention the horrific growth in racial attacks and neo-Nazi bands that are now rampaging around the eastern part of what is now the unified Germany . |
| 17 | There was clearly a danger for the Labour Party that its candidate for the premiership would not ‘ emerge ’ as a potential leader ; this was reinforced by the fact that the Labour manifesto , Let us Face the Future , did not even mention his name . |
| 18 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 19 | Press reports were poorly informative : one paper did not even mention Elisabeth nor , incidentally , the procedure I used for fertilisation . |
| 20 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 21 | But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity . |
| 22 | ‘ I am numb , I do not even feel anger towards whoever did it . ’ |
| 23 | And she thought , guiltily , I do not even feel guilty . |
| 24 | Something briefly blurred her vision of the tall man , who silently wiped away the tear she could not even feel , before he lowered the lid over her face , cutting off all light . |
| 25 | It was as if he did not even feel it , for there was no response . |
| 26 | Hecate immediately warns the audience , in a speech displaced to the opening , that it is confronted by a chaotic world in which Scotland does not even stand where it did . |
| 27 | He could not even stand on it . |
| 28 | ‘ She could not even stand by herself yet she has has been the victim of a most brutal assault in her own bed . |
| 29 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 30 | On her return , Ashraf reported directly to her brother and did not even send the foreign minister a copy of her conclusions . |