Example sentences of "even [conj] it takes " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 2 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 3 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 4 | The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point … |
| 5 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 6 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 7 | The men also look very fine in their long curly wigs ( even if it takes their partners a little while to get used to them ) . |
| 8 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 9 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 11 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
| 12 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 13 | All is extended , manifested , rolled out by the universal energy from the seeds of his idea deep in his existence ; but the spirit even though it takes up and enjoys her workings in this body of ours , is not affected by its mortality because it is eternal beyond birth and death , is not linked by the personalities which it assumes because it is the supreme self of all these personalities … ’ |
| 14 | SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’ |