Example sentences of "even [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've even been past Grey House twice to see if by any chance your car was there , to see if you 'd come back and not let me know . |
| 2 | I have scarcely even been without natives accompanying me who also shoot with facility . ’ |
| 3 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 4 | Ben had even been at it all through the war . |
| 5 | He had not even been at the party . |
| 6 | In 1885 the two countries had even been on bad enough terms to recall their respective ambassadors . |
| 7 | I 'd never even been on a train until I was past thirty and if you recall that was no joy-ride , simply a mercy dash to get Renée out of one of her scrapes . ’ |
| 8 | I think he even been on the boards himself in the early days . |
| 9 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 10 | ‘ I had never even been on a hat-trick before , ’ said Henderson . |
| 11 | I like boats even though I have n't even been on one . |
| 12 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
| 13 | You 're not English and you 've never even been to England . ’ |
| 14 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |
| 15 | I 've never even been to Highgrove , and that 's the truth . |
| 16 | I 've never even been to Scotland and my mother was certainly never chased by a Scotsman . |
| 17 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 18 | I 'd never even been to her house . |
| 19 | Everyone thinks lesbians are only in prison , but I know loads of women from the outside who have n't even been to prison who are lesbians . |
| 20 | And now he 's made Big Ben and he has n't even been to London to see it . |
| 21 | There was a war on , so you did n't question anything ; and if she was completely honest , there had even been times when she had looked forward to leaving home with a kind of guilty relief . |
| 22 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 23 | He could n't believe that it would have wandered far when it had n't even been outside the stable for such a long time . |
| 24 | Only the grandmother had even been inside Bourani ; and that was long before the war . |
| 25 | He 'd even been inside the building , and could describe who sat where . |
| 26 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 27 | She had not even been in the country long enough to register with a doctor . |
| 28 | I 'd never even been in a car until I was twenty … |
| 29 | It was wonderful to be back in this little room , to know that her father had walked past this door and even been in here . |
| 30 | She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible . |