Example sentences of "[pron] even [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself . |
| 2 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 3 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 4 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 5 | to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing . |
| 6 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 7 | If you keep on saying a thing long enough communist , everybody believes you even though it 's the biggest lie on earth . |
| 8 | None the less , the question we have posed is an important one even if it has no ready answer ; important because it directs our attention to the ways in which disciplines acquire , develop and , not to be forgotten , discard knowledge . |
| 9 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |
| 10 | I 'm the type to stick at something even if it gets on top of me , whereas my sister would put her in a Home . ’ |
| 11 | Every time the series is shown in Nicaragua , Zimbabwe , Iceland or wherever , I 'm sent something even if it is only a few shillings . |
| 12 | Most people will offer something even if it is only a few per cent for cash on delivery . |
| 13 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 14 | There are occasions when teachers would want detailed feedback for diagnostic purposes or to evaluate their teaching , but an assessment scheme which is tightly based on a large number of criteria would compel teachers to work to them even when it might not be appropriate to do so . |
| 15 | If anyone else would wan na come with me even though it 's during school weeks . |
| 16 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 17 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , stroking a finger delicately along his jaw , needing somehow to touch him even if it was only now so innocently . |
| 19 | It stirred the man in him even as it gored him . |
| 20 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 21 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a groove in it even though it 's not built around it . |
| 23 | We 'll have we 'll we 'll have a very short tiny tiny little look at it even though it 's almost a holiday , right . |
| 24 | First , because the lives and experiences of many elderly people prove it is true ; and second , because it would be important , even necessary , for the counsellor and the counsellee to believe it even if it were not true . |
| 25 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 26 | ‘ On the contrary , it 's because … dash it , I 'll say it even if it does sound sloppy ! |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't drink it even if it tasted like the real thing , ’ comments Stephen , a 32-year-old designer . |
| 28 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 29 | I will do it even when it snows and when it rains . |
| 30 | But even at his most confused , the essence of Maurice was still there , and we loved him for it even when it drove us spare . |