Example sentences of "even [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 2 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |
| 3 | Wallace estimated that Sulawesi was of very ancient origin , possibly even dating from a time before Sumatra , Java and Borneo were raised above the level of the ocean . |
| 4 | Allergies to cow 's milk protein are quite common in childhood and present a number of problems , including eczema , asthma or wheezing , infantile colic , hyperactive behaviour , nettle rash ( urticaria ) , constipation , diarrhoea , and even bleeding from the bowel , catarrh , and recurrent ear infection of " glue ears ' . |
| 5 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 6 | By whatever means , huge numbers of locals and those who have left the area contrive to be there — even coming from such places as Australia and America — to take part in the celebrations and be reunited with family and friends . |
| 7 | With a little effort she managed to be reasonably amiable throughout supper , even refraining from a caustic retort when he complimented her cooking . |
| 8 | Sometimes they will walk fast , even running from place to place , and then they will skip or hop , and the next moment they will be walking quite slowly ( much to their mothers ' annoyance ) . |
| 9 | And a constant background to everything was the music : carols , pop , sentimental , classical ; now near , now far ; on tape , on record , and occasionally even issuing from a real , live , human throat . |
| 10 | Even swinging from the hypothetical chandelier , her sense of irony does not desert her : ‘ OK , Kokos … now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 11 | Dexter noticed that white hairs were even bristling from his ears and above the line on his cheeks where he shaved . |
| 12 | And watch yourself handling it , even learning from it . |
| 13 | ‘ Camblet ’ , a word as old as Marco polo , or even springing from earlier Arabic associations , connects into ‘ Camelot ’ , fine cloth , finer than camelhair with which it became commonly associated , finer than wool , as fine as silk itself and perhaps a combination of camel and wool and silk . |