Example sentences of "[noun] even [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
| 2 | He caught her by the waist , in a half rugby tackle , lifted her up , spun her around and in one fell swoop had hoisted her on to his shoulders even before she realised what was happening . |
| 3 | Volkov held her close ; marvelling at her selfless courage even as he reproached her . |
| 4 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 5 | She knew it was Stephen even before she picked it up . |
| 6 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 7 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 8 | The United States was unable to restrain Israel even when it felt it was necessary to do so against Syria in June 1967 and against Lebanon in 1982 . |
| 9 | She had deluded herself ; she had believed that innocence of spirit and a devout purpose were adequate guides through this treacherous domain , but the facts were clear enough now : she had diminished mystery to pious platitude , and some devious element at work in the deeps of her imagination was scorning her efforts even as she made them … |
| 10 | The no evidence doctrine was commonly taken to mean that a decision will not be regarded as outside of the jurisdiction of the decision-maker even if he reached his decision on no evidence . |
| 11 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 12 | If you 're not a member of the club and you 're not accepted the rituals and people do n't like you , they wo n't tell you and as a result you wo n't be an effective hunter , you wo n't be able to support many wives even if you wanted them and if you have wives what they needed , because if a man does n't feed his wives they , they , they all eventually get up and go , they 'll say two fingers you know , you ca n't feed us . |
| 13 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 14 | He was jitterbugging with the recoil , and the gun 's momentum kept his first sweep going for a couple of yards even after he realised he 'd missed me . |
| 15 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 16 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 17 | She pressed her cool palm against his open mouth , hushing his enquiry even as she answered it . |
| 18 | One boy said he could not help using Creole even though he thought it might be bad for him : MS Do you agree with your mother that speaking Patois can hold you back ? |
| 19 | Students who are normally resident in Northern Ireland are not normally eligible for postgraduate awards from award-giving bodies in Great Britain even if they undertook their first degree at a university or polytechnic in Great Britain . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't admit a mistake even if I made one , ’ Davis said . |
| 21 | London Transport said it would not have dismissed strike leaders even if it knew their identity , for fear of bringing the Underground system to a halt . |
| 22 | They got hung-up about status even though you explained it to them . |
| 23 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |
| 24 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 25 | Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London . |
| 26 | You know I said they 're all fantastically healthy and yet there are n't any old folks even though we thought they travelled around together in a group ? |
| 27 | My father made no attempt ever to control his rages even though he knew his condition . |