Example sentences of "[verb] even [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Practise writing even although you think you 're rotten at it .
2 I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down .
3 I was n't sure I could speak even if I had anything to say .
4 Similarly , whereas over half of the sample ( 57 per cent ) admitted to always or mostly continuing to drink even when they knew they were intoxicated , at the end of the course 60 per cent said this rarely or never occurred .
5 What is it about Peter Cook or John Hegley that predisposes me to smile even before they open their mouths ?
6 ‘ You mean you 're going to help even if it kills me ? ’
7 But pathos exists even if you know you 're finished at death in your lifetime , pathos still exists .
8 He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit .
9 even though you know Even although you know it .
10 I sha n't take it if it 's something I do n't like you know even if they give it free .
11 One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water .
12 Because all human beings are fallible , with individual fears and weaknesses , it is so easy for the foundation for a similar fear in our children to be laid even when we think we are doing our best for them .
13 Caroline says midwives do n't like to be bossy , and resist ‘ ordering ’ a woman to rest even if they feel she should .
14 I panicked even before I knew he was murdered . ’
15 The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something .
16 I mean even when I smoked I did .
17 The stairs creaked even where he placed his feet carefully at the wall side and the ludicrous self-portrait of himself as a householder properly armed with a poker going upstairs to hunt burglars made him stop to tauten his thoughts .
18 ‘ You leave her … the fuck … alone , ’ Gentle gasped , knowing even as he spoke he had no way of enforcing this edict in his present state .
19 Does that mean even before they pay their first premium ?
20 The benefits of the DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN can continue even after you receive your tax-free payout , in the form of a further lump sum — again taxfree — payable to your dependents on your death .
21 Hindley did not care what they did , as long as they kept out of his way , and they did not care even if he punished them .
22 Likewise , she expects the children to operate intuitively in their make-believe , but she believes the intuition can be a refined instrument , accompanied by a high degree of awareness , at its best , bringing about reflection on what one experiences even as one experiences it .
23 Her voice was controlled even as she lifted her hand to silence Emily .
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