Example sentences of "[pron] even [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even had a tickle between my shoulder-blades that I could n't reach |
| 2 | Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone . |
| 3 | Last week I even had a letter from Yugoslavia asking for a donation towards Disabled Esperantists ! |
| 4 | ‘ I even had a piece of the same wood specially stained for you . ’ |
| 5 | I even had a picture of the evolutionary sequence of bodies leading up to my insects by slow degrees from a dot ancestor . |
| 6 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
| 7 | I even had a tape recorder going , hidden behind the chair . |
| 8 | I even composed a ballad on the subject which was subsequently printed in our Cutter Magazine . |
| 9 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 10 | I even passed a couple of oast houses where hops used to be dried after being picked by families of East Enders for a pittance and a daily beer ration . |
| 11 | One day when I was out in the fields , I even spotted a peregrine falcon high up on one of its hunting trips . |
| 12 | I even got a reprimand from my creep of a Minister . |
| 13 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 14 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 15 | On this stretch , I even saw a taxi . |
| 16 | She looked sad and worried , and I even saw a tear or two on her face . |
| 17 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 18 | I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s . |
| 19 | I even bought a top . |
| 20 | I even bought a set of those flash cards with pictures and words such as Cat , Dog , Rabbit , Mummy and Daddy in my attempt to awake in him a hunger for knowledge . |
| 21 | I even drew a donkey playing and a devil dancing . |
| 22 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 23 | Somebody even had a violin . |
| 24 | You have done nudity in most of your films and you even did a Playboy Magazine lay-out . |
| 25 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 26 | She even felt a twinge of amusement . |
| 27 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 28 | Speaking in fluent English , she even raised a laugh in court , as she was grilled by defence barrister Anthony Arlidge , QC . |
| 29 | She even received a newspaper cutting for Kelly 's photograph with ‘ Ha Ha Ha ’ , scrawled over her face . |
| 30 | She even got a goodnight story and kiss when Daddy was away . |