Example sentences of "[verb] even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to . |
| 2 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 3 | His general point may survive even if we do not share his preferences for physics , or even science . |
| 4 | And thanks to a smart directory — a custom-designed programme by Richard himself — senders can track down the person they want even if they have only the recipient 's first name , or just the vaguest idea of their title or where they work . |
| 5 | Ma is thin and she 's not all that strong , but she did have a go , persevering even after it mowed down most of her prize herb bed . |
| 6 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 7 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 8 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 9 | Now this is very common you do n't know what you 're working with so you ca n't really be expected even if you get the answer if |
| 10 | I 'm not going to do what he wants even if I do fancy you . |
| 11 | These are wishes of the ego , and they 're gratified in the illusion of religion , but as we 've also seen , Freud erm , notices even though he does n't comment , that the illusion of religion is pro-social , in the sense that it maintains social order , systems and morality , and so on . |
| 12 | Therefore , there seem to be two bases on which a contractual term can be attacked even though it does not attempt to restrain a party after the contractual period had ended . |
| 13 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 14 | It does not break even if it lands directly on other eggs because its shell is twice as thick as those of the host bird . |
| 15 | Why did they say that migration occurs even when we have high unem unemployment ? |
| 16 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 17 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 18 | Practise writing even although you think you 're rotten at it . |
| 19 | What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence . |
| 20 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 21 | I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down . |
| 22 | Mr Lang remains convinced that savings are still there to be made even though he appears to accept that these will be less than originally envisaged . |
| 23 | On divorce a married woman may now apply for a property transfer order , and this can be made even if she has made no direct financial contribution to the purchase or improvement of the matrimonial home . |
| 24 | The spots then started disappearing , so I went training even though they had n't completely gone . |
| 25 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 26 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 27 | Ryan 's eyes seemed to bulge even as she watched , and she threw herself frantically towards them . |
| 28 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 29 | She says even if they look angelic , they could still be thieves . |
| 30 | Do what the boss says even if it means annihilating yourself . ’ |