Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks . |
| 2 | Schmenner 's analogy is not a good one , even if one sympathizes with his sentiment . |
| 3 | He says what he believes to be true and even if one disagrees with him , his uncompromising stances are vastly preferable to some of the gobbledy-gook that comes from some sections of the countryside establishment or those who change their views from year to year . |
| 4 | In a team where mutual respect exists , the leader will be trusted to make the best decisions , even if they go against your views . |
| 5 | Multinational chemical companies complained that many chemicals imported into Hong Kong were exported again ; manufacturers protested that they would be penalised , even if they disposed of their chemicals responsibly . |
| 6 | Any atom of oxygen is like any other in its essence , even if they differ in their position , velocity , state of excitation , and so on . |
| 7 | But it is n't something they 'll expect her to confide even if they know about it . |
| 8 | It shows that they accept each other 's utterances ( even if they disagree with them ) and it indicates their willingness to interact and to keep on interacting . |
| 9 | Even if they disagree with your content , dissenters will prefer your case to be put well . |
| 10 | It is therefore essential to know which drains are the householder 's responsibility , even if they run across someone else 's land ; and which private sewers are ‘ shared ’ , and the point at which the local authority public sewer becomes responsible . |
| 11 | Even if we agree with his general hypothesis , we have to accept that in some instances people will eat the dead bodies of other people — if only in order to stay alive . |
| 12 | Even if someone looks after her you wonder , is she all right ? |
| 13 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 14 | Even if you try at something and fail the first time , have another go . |
| 15 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 16 | It does n't multiload presentation screens , but it does force you to reload Level One even if you died on it , and automatically restarts when loading is complete — if you go and make a cup of tea between levels , chances are you 'll be greeted with a ‘ game over ’ message when you return ! |
| 17 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
| 18 | Late-twentieth century culture is hard enough to fathom , even if you live within its centrifugal core . |
| 19 | A soft dog would cower , perhaps holding his foot up to let you know that he has been hurt and even if you move towards him to apologize , he will move away with a worried expression . |
| 20 | Even if I went into my bedroom to read or do homework , I 'd still have her sitting there on my huge falconer 's glove , fidgeting and glaring at me . |
| 21 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got to try it on , even if I decide on something less saucy , ’ she laughed , her eyes alight with excitement . |
| 23 | Whenever anyone , Y , is in a position to say , ‘ X is φ ’ on account of what he sees , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it is true to say that X appears to him to be φ , even if it goes against our linguistic practice of saying , ‘ X appears to Y to be φ ’ only if we have a reason not to say , ‘ X is φ ’ . |
| 24 | Another — much smaller — firm involved in the discussions is American Science and Technology Corporation which plans , even if it fails in its bid for Landsat , to launch a rival set of satellites from the mid 1980s , The craft would scan the Earth with relatively low resolutions . |
| 25 | The wire is generally fastened to the bracelet with a popper so even if she forgets about it and walks away from her machine with it still attached , it will just pop apart . |
| 26 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 27 | ‘ Even if she fell from her bike she could be paralysed , ’ a shocked Janet was told . |
| 28 | But even while she joked with him , she remembered those other nurses who had worked with him . |
| 29 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 30 | I am always amused by the idea that outsiders have of Whitehall as being slow-moving ; we are like a snake , whose coils seem to be lying motionless even as they flow past your eyes and are gone . |