Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 2 | She was going to hit him , even if they threw her in jail again . |
| 3 | ‘ Even if you keep her in another day or two , you 'll have to let her out sometime . |
| 4 | Even if you use it in the rough edit stage to see how the music fits the visuals , without the licences it is theoretically illegal . |
| 5 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 6 | Even if you fence it in you still have the additional traffic that would be regenerated in picking the children up and dropping them off . |
| 7 | ( Even if you see it in other people , you might well not see it in yourself . ) |
| 8 | Well I think even if you do n't do it as one christian or as one human being to another , even if you do it in the view of a general who sleeps with the enemy general 's picture over his bed and you 've got ta try and think into this man 's mind , remember he 's from West Belfast , he 's from the area that this man was killed in . |
| 9 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
| 10 | ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process . |
| 11 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 12 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 13 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 14 | That even as he gets them in his grip |
| 15 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 16 | The lady in the story ( as plainly told as it is titled ) inexplicably turns , halfway through an ordinary afternoon , into a bright-eyed vixen ; and the man in the story , equally inexplicably , Boy thought , remains faithful to her and loves her dearly even when she leaves him in order to raise a family with another animal and he even , in the end , goes mad with love for her . |
| 17 | We do not know Selkirk 's secret , even though we hold it in our hands . |
| 18 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 19 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |
| 20 | It was a terribly long journey , even though they broke it in Florida . |
| 21 | In situations of moral dilemma he does what he considers must be done , even though it involves him in distress and suffering . |