Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 2 | Such a placing also ensures that insects coming to feed on it , even if they seek nothing else , are dusted with the pollen that the plants require them to carry . |
| 3 | ‘ That 'll cost them the turn-out prize even if they win everything else . |
| 4 | Even if they send me out , I will return . |
| 5 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 6 | that , even if we knew it once again , |
| 7 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 8 | At the moment , nuclear power contributes approximately three percent to our national consumption of fuels , a small figure and even if we multiplied it tenfold that would be thirty percent . |
| 9 | However , he recognized that the days when he could play the benign ruler , satisfying the grievances of his subjects and punishing guilty lesser officials , were waning — even if he had nothing more positive to put in its place . |
| 10 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 11 | even if you played it like that it 's still a crush . |
| 12 | Eczema , yeah oh , now what about you getting something for tomorrow then , cos you 'll have to take something , you ca n't go there without anything even if you bring it back , you must take something , ha no problem in a bag is it ? |
| 13 | Even if you got it further it 's wider than the stairway which is only two foot six and the r wardrobe 's three foot . |
| 14 | I mean I 've even though about if I if I tell you this and you think that 's it 's going to put you you just even if you pass it on to somebody what I 'm telling you pass it on , but just and I 'll try and get the dental treatment where I can get the dental treatment . |
| 15 | And even if you dig it up turn it over and start again that moss is in it is n't it ? |
| 16 | Walks : Far too many to manage in one holiday , even if you did nothing else . |
| 17 | However , even if you fly something fully equipped , a quarter mill is still useful for the day when ( a ) you 're flying something more basic or ( b ) your electrics have packed up , you ca n't trust your instruments , the viz is a bit iffy and you just have to get home — but safely . |
| 18 | Even if you think I already know something , please tell me anyway . |
| 19 | And , even if you force me down , I 'll rise again . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So I 'd have to pay for both lots when I bought them , even if I put one straight back into the next auction ? ’ |
| 21 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 22 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
| 23 | Even if I tried it on I thought she would stop me . |
| 24 | Well I planned a little bit but even if I plan I still ca n't write it . |
| 25 | It is too early yet to say how useful the discourse approach will be , but even if it achieves nothing else , it can at least be claimed to have shown the inadequacy of attempting to analyse the function of intonation on the basis of isolated sentences or tone-units , removed from their linguistic and situational context . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Do I share their prejudices and feel somewhere deep in my psyche that a woman ought to care about a baby she produces , even if she produces it under highly unnatural conditions ? |
| 28 | She knew it was Stephen even before she picked it up . |
| 29 | Interestingly , they sound radically different , and different even before you plug them in . |
| 30 | I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down . |