Example sentences of "even [conj] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 2 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 5 | She was going to hit him , even if they threw her in jail again . |
| 6 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 7 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 8 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 9 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 10 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 11 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was a terribly long journey , even though they broke it in Florida . |