Example sentences of "[noun] and even [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the time approached for me to concentrate on my matriculation , I decided to offer Charlie the opportunity to buy out my share of the partnership and even arranged for a qualified accountant to replace me in order that they could take over the book-keeping . |
| 2 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 3 | She immediately recognized Angel 's brothers and even overheard some of their conversation . |
| 4 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 5 | The task force was set up after detectives discovered that some of the money had been used to finance drugs and property dealing in the United States and even invested in London 's Docklands , realising millions of pounds in profits . |
| 6 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 7 | The larger-than-life character is becoming well-known on the streets of Iasi youngsters in the town have dubbed him The Black Horse and even taken to copying his distinctive hairstyle : slicked back with a pony-tail . |
| 8 | James Duke of York was unusually deeply interested in colonial affairs and colonial investment : apart from his ownership of what had been New Amsterdam , he was a governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company and of the Royal Africa Company , and several of the politicians at court invested in these companies and even held posts in them . |
| 9 | It will be remembered that during the last 30 years of life the King had suffered from a distressing illness that resulted in his being kept under guard and even put into a straight-jacket : if he had said anything about the origin of the instrument it is unlikely that much weight would be given to his words . |
| 10 | ‘ But you 've comforted many a weary soul , listened to lots of troubled folk and even given one or two the will to live again . |
| 11 | When it was clear that the putsch had failed , Yeltsin made Grachev a hero and even proposed ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister but its leaders were still at large , Yeltsin offered Grachev the future post of Russian defence minister , at the same time asking him to help arrest the plotters . |
| 12 | Marx despised the peasantry and even found words of praise for the bourgeoisie 's destruction of the ancient way of life in the West : ‘ The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns . |
| 13 | The ship 's captain and crew may be brought to trial and even sent to prison . |
| 14 | They remained popular in the West throughout the Middle Ages and even continued to be used by the supreme tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire until its abolition by Napoleon in 1806 . |
| 15 | A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie . |
| 16 | He learned to make maps and even fought with pirates . |
| 17 | We backed Frank Gray as his successor and even paid a record club fee for Nick Cusack . |
| 18 | We know that the job has sharpened some of our talents and even given us other , quite new ones ; we experience a number of pleasurable sensations at work — labouring successfully under pressure , completing the job on time , the anticipation of the moment when we can stop . |
| 19 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 20 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |
| 21 | He is also the Royal Family 's favourite and even managed to produce a stunning portrait of Fergie in 1988 . |
| 22 | This was the soft sell ; the hard sell came with the Tet offensive , January — February 1968 , when Viet Cong forces penetrated almost all American bases and even moved into Saigon . |
| 23 | adopted a subject department , attended staff meetings and training days and even accompanied school parties on educational visits . |
| 24 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 25 | She constantly pestered him with telephone calls , messages and even turned up at his home . |
| 26 | Leading-edge camera systems , hi-fi set-ups and even tweaked auto-mobiles never come from one source . |
| 27 | Place them behind curtains , under a mat , in a drawer , under plants and even stuck to windows or doors . |
| 28 | Within the next 50 years Ottoman armies crossed the Danube and even penetrated into Hungary and Romania , laying siege to Vienna in 1529 . |
| 29 | The US gunners were excited by the targets and even fired on some US aircraft flying to Ford Island from the Enterprise — several were shot down unfortunately . |
| 30 | He would beg food from other children in school , eat their apple cores and even scoured bins for food , prosecuting barrister David Hale told the jury . |