Example sentences of "[verb] even [conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to . |
| 2 | I 'm not going to do what he wants even if I do fancy you . |
| 3 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 4 | What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence . |
| 5 | Mr Lang remains convinced that savings are still there to be made even though he appears to accept that these will be less than originally envisaged . |
| 6 | On divorce a married woman may now apply for a property transfer order , and this can be made even if she has made no direct financial contribution to the purchase or improvement of the matrimonial home . |
| 7 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 8 | Do what the boss says even if it means annihilating yourself . ’ |
| 9 | Such a result would leave Mr Smith , sponsored by the general workers , still able to win even if he failed to gain the support of most MPs or constituency parties . |
| 10 | Ron , 74 , of Wrafton , Devon , said : ‘ We 'll be going even when they have to wheel us in . ’ |
| 11 | even if people do read these contracts , or these warranties , or these extended service contracts , they might not know what they 're buying even if it 's read to them , because it 's in a particular kind of jargon . |
| 12 | Bernice could n't see what he thought he would be able to do even if they did catch up with the shapechangers . |
| 13 | erm you know even if it does come in late so we can say oh yes I remember this person sort of thing , you know |
| 14 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 15 | He pulled her with him to a more secure place , but there was n't a chance of speaking even if she 'd had breath or invention . |
| 16 | Shaun 's last years at school had been difficult he 'd even taken a swing at a teacher at one point — and he 'd earned a reputation for the motherless Hammond boys that Wayne had found himself sharing even though he 'd done nothing to earn it . |
| 17 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 18 | Stick to the point , even if it means you 're acting like a bit of a broken record , get that person make sure they hear what you 're saying even if you have to repeat it over and over again . |
| 19 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
| 20 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 21 | I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to . |
| 22 | ‘ They blame us for their problems , I mean even though we have lived here for many , many generations . |
| 23 | But more astute moves made even before she had established herself as a world star had guaranteed that she collected an above average share of the money her records were making . |
| 24 | In 1696 an Act of Parliament " for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen " had provided that mariners , irrespective of rank , should pay 6d. per month out of their wages to support the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich which should act as an alternative to the parish relief which few sailors were able to claim even if they wished to do so . |
| 25 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 26 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 27 | She was kneading bread , her arms flour to the wrists , when the doorway behind her was darkened , and she knew even before she whirled to face him that this was not her father coming home from his snares . |
| 28 | But Rita Marley was acquitted even though she admitted forging her husband 's signature . |
| 29 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 30 | but , do n't forget even when you 've passed your test , your test you 're still learning , you still make mistakes and still do things wrong I mean I do even now it 's not what you do wrong it 's how you get out of it , is n't it ? |