Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stairs creaked even where he placed his feet carefully at the wall side and the ludicrous self-portrait of himself as a householder properly armed with a poker going upstairs to hunt burglars made him stop to tauten his thoughts . |
| 2 | At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps , even if they told their parents , they would fail to understand , or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences . |
| 3 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 4 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 5 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 6 | But what we realized was that even if we hit his estimates we were still gon na be worse off . |
| 7 | You 're in a dead end as far as Charlie 's records are concerned , and even if you get your hands on them you 've no guarantee they 'll be of any use . |
| 8 | But even if I suppress my reactions , this is how I feel , and , consequently , I have met few men in my adult life about whose bathroom habits I have felt entirely comfortable . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
| 11 | What is it about Peter Cook or John Hegley that predisposes me to smile even before they open their mouths ? |
| 12 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 13 | Even as I put my talons down I pulled them away , for I sensed something was wrong , but it was quicker than I and with a loud metal sound like the closing of a cage gate it sprang shut . |
| 14 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 15 | People were drawn to him almost against their will , even when they knew his faults . |
| 16 | I could n't see what to photograph , even when I got my slides back there was nothing there . |
| 17 | Even when you rub their noses in it , politicians can be remarkably slow to recognise reality for what it is . |
| 18 | Even when you avert your eyes from his daily economic blunders , you 'll always find another sad aspect of his premiership slapping you in the face . |
| 19 | Even when she closed her eyes they were still daggered by its scintillations . |
| 20 | Yet , somehow , even when he gets his facts wrong and becomes trapped in a spiral of tricky tautologies , Durkheim 's way of putting things has a brilliant radiance which few other sociological theorists can match , far less surpass . |
| 21 | Other Unionists , including Law himself , were less sure , even though they shared their colleagues " concern about the political and economic situation ; nevertheless it was agreed to go ahead , but that Lloyd George should make the first move . |
| 22 | What will happen to the most vulnerable , who can not even complain because they can not communicate — even though they pay their taxes to support these services ? |
| 23 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 24 | Eventually he asked her out , and , even though she knew her parents strongly disapproved of the flashy young man from London , she disobeyed them and started sneaking out of the house every night when they were asleep , to meet him . |
| 25 | When the pregnancy was confirmed she was in tears from the shock , even though she had her suspicions when her periods failed to arrive . |
| 26 | Accordingly they may marry early and begin a family quickly ; that will increase their chances of being allocated a council house through the points system , even though it reduces their chances of buying or renting privately ( Ineichen 1979a ) . |
| 27 | Even though it caught his eyes , so that he was actually watching when it happened , the figure that leapt from the blackness was only a silvery blur , moving with breathtaking and unreal speed . |
| 28 | I think it would be much more effective if the one who was meant to be the hardhat and who might be expected to let the other one drown in fact saves the other one even though he thinks his ideas about the Indians and his plan to baptise them when they get to the Orinoco are blasphemous . |