Example sentences of "even [conj] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 2 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 3 | You could lock anybody up that fell under that power — even if it happened a week ago . |
| 4 | I thought to myself , even as it happened , that this winking of my very self-consciousness was a nice expression of the value I represented . |
| 5 | And the Journal 's not exactly a reliable record of what happened to him — or even when it happened . |
| 6 | And so it seems self-evident that the subject of language should also draw on a cognate disciplinary source even though it happens in this case to have the different name of linguistics . |