Example sentences of "not even " in BNC.
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| 1 | His clothes are in rags , and do not even cover his private parts . |
| 2 | You will enter my machine , he wrote , and the trip will consist in the discovery that we can not even get started . |
| 3 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 4 | Without images , he said , there would not even be the wherewithal to talk about the death of images . |
| 5 | When I can not even remember the names of the women I slept with ? |
| 6 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 7 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
| 8 | But if you can start again it means you have not even begun . |
| 9 | I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers . |
| 10 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son Michael , whom you may not even remember , the fair one with the glasses . |
| 11 | Not even a question of the temptation to give up . |
| 12 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 13 | At the time I was not even listening properly . |
| 14 | Anyway , there she was in her own room , and no call if she did n't want to open the door to anyone , not even her husband . ’ |
| 15 | Often , the pilot does not even consider what he will do if the glider hits some sink and loses some extra height . |
| 16 | Where this is the case , the full opposite rudder may not even appear to change the spin , and the spin will continue until the movement forward is sufficient . |
| 17 | When you are tired out and upset with yourself for not having taken that extra piece of lift some miles back , there can be a tendency to become apathetic and not even try to prevent an accident . |
| 18 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 19 | Most experienced pilots and instructors do n't remember their own early flights and do n't realise that sensations which cause discomfort on a first flight will not even be noticed by the hardened pilot or instructor . |
| 20 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 21 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
| 22 | You may not even know you have had it . |
| 23 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 24 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 25 | In our marginal universe , we pursued offences which were then not even classified as crimes in the Home Office Standard list , and were pitched into a new philosophical world structured by a number of alternative social constructs . |
| 26 | Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world . |
| 27 | But late night Jay tore into the poem , words flowing like wine from an oak cask , and — what the hell ? — redeemed by the dawn spring of Lucy 's eyes , she put the poem in an envelope , avoided Francis 's deep meaningful questions : this love had no confidantes , not even one as well known and sweet as he . |
| 28 | It was not even as noble and hopeless as tilting at windmills ; she was blindfolded by not understanding and whirled towards every sound — Lucy 's voice , laugh , profile , light footfall : all worn by unknowing everyday strangers . |
| 29 | He was by profession a melamed , a Hebrew school-teacher , not even of rabbinic standing . |
| 30 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |