Example sentences of "even [conj] he [be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He may have received psychotherapy , but has not yet undergone conversion surgery even if he is contemplating it .
2 Even if he was kissing her because he only felt sorry for her , she could pretend , could n't she ?
3 he told her that even if he was caught he had now enough money to get her , police monitoring calls to the Shipway 's office traced the call within seconds to a phone box at the service station on the A one at Groinby near Gran Grantham Lan , Lincolnshire , police cars arrived at the call box only minutes after the kidnapper had left
4 He speaks quietly , pleasantly , with an even delivery that would sound the same even if he was threatening your life .
5 In the immediate context of The Possessed Kirillov delights even while he is dismaying us by pushing theory — the novel 's Paper Person motif , that is — to the very limit , the born gambler 's limit .
6 But even while he was saying it , it did not sound true .
7 He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea .
8 Even as he was shaking his head , Patrick could hear Tom Rooney saying to him , " You 're part of the organization now … we look after our own , " and then he remembered the young gunman 's statement , " We need people like you … if any of you feel like joining … "
9 He 'd answered with some folderol about seeking the ideal woman , but he 'd known the truth even as he was spinning her this tosh , and it was a bitter thing .
10 Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom .
11 This was in part due to Reginald Birch 's illustrations which kept the boy always in black velvet and lace , even when he was riding his pony , and in part to the intense relationship between mother and son ; Mrs Burnett here had in mind herself and her son Vivian , upon whom Fauntleroy himself was modelled .
12 But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head .
13 Certainly , the former Harlequins coach , did that at Myreside yesterday afternoon when he had 24 Watson 's boys eating out of his hand , even though he was wearing his England track suit .
14 Lineker became incensed when Taylor went public , not only questioning whether Lineker should remain as captain , but whether his form justified a place in the side — even though he was maintaining his phenomenal strike rate .
15 Mike 's boss , Max Smith , 53 , said : ‘ Even though he was trapped he finished the job . ’
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