Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 2 | Even if he now commanded her , as he was undressing , to open her eyes she would not see his powerful , barrel-chested body as it came at her . |
| 3 | Even if he only held his cottage on a tenancy , a cottager could usually keep animals on the common pasture land , and collect fuel from the land unsuited to agriculture , known as the waste . |
| 4 | ‘ Even if I never said it clearly , it was always written that Barphone would one day or another throw itself in with a powerful group ’ he declared . |
| 5 | Even if I never played it again I would put the guitar on display in my house , because it 's like a work of art . ’ |
| 6 | Even if I only sold it , you know for a couple of hundred pounds . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , Angela could quote all the reviews even if she sometimes wondered what exactly they were trying to say . |
| 8 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | Helen , too , was frequently informed of his over-readiness to fall in love with an attractive outward appearance , even as he constantly restated his heavy dependence upon his engrossed love for her : |
| 10 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 11 | She lived with guilt even as she fiercely told herself that it was n't fair that her life now should be so miserable and exhausting . |
| 12 | Even as it formally commissioned its $100 million Tencel fibers plant … |
| 13 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 14 | There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation . |
| 15 | He 'd come and witter on about where , exactly , we should put this cup , that bag of tissues and just adored pulling down our blindfolds , even though they always covered our noses , let alone our eyes . |
| 16 | Even though she once told me she did n't really care much for men , she said it was fun to see the way they reacted to her . |
| 17 | This can not be doubted — even though he soon overcame it . |
| 18 | Even though he only heard it through his right ear . |
| 19 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |