Example sentences of "[conj] even as [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
2 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
3 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
4 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
5 | But even as she made the token protest she knew a longing almost painful in its intensity to feel the possession of his mouth all over again . |
6 | ‘ I do n't care , ’ she said stubbornly , but even as she said the words she knew they were n't a hundred per cent true . |
7 | But even as she framed the words in her mind , confidence deserted her . |
8 | She swore — yet again — that she would leave off the rich food , forget the drink , but even as she making the promise , she knew she would not be able to keep to it . |
9 | But even as she held the knob in her hand and was about to turn it , she hesitated and her arm dropped to her side . |