Example sentences of "[adj] even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaking with terror , her heart pounding , she could n't have broken free even if she had wanted . |
| 2 | ‘ More than ten million men have died for their country , and some even before they had finished growing , ’ Charlie wrote in a letter to his sister Sal . |
| 3 | and then it 'll be till Tuesday he 's already got some even though they got ta be sent out to the firm |
| 4 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 5 | Interestingly , they sound radically different , and different even before you plug them in . |
| 6 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
| 7 | Above : The Scissortail is very popular even though it lacks any bright colouring . |
| 8 | Any loan from the bank involves a risk of default , and the bank will be concerned about this even though it has sought security from the firm . |
| 9 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 10 | But er er going beyond that , I think it would be wise for us to assume that we will not get paid time off for this even if we do attempt to disguise it as something else . |
| 11 | It is not a very practical or reliable weapon , but engineers are notoriously fond of clever little devices like this even if they do n't always work . |
| 12 | Those links enable EDI users to communicate with one another even if they 've opted to subscribe to different networks . |
| 13 | Stay assertive even when you do n't feel like it and especially when dealing with a submissive or aggressive person . |
| 14 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 15 | And it is their response to each other 's movements and their own enjoyment in dance that makes their behaviour appear natural and spontaneous even when they perform difficult technical feats . |
| 16 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 17 | If you 're planning to do a lot of weaving , the weaving arm is a useful extra even if you do have built-in weaving brushes on your machine . |
| 18 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 19 | And you can also get lost even if you do say the script because I said to Roger I , I 've |
| 20 | Sitting at table with these guests I would have felt uncomfortable even if I had n't robbed my sister . |
| 21 | He ignores information on the left even though he has no left visual field loss . |
| 22 | If , as is possible , the optical company was in a monopolistic or oligopolistic position , they could afford to adopt work practices which were actually rather costly even though they gave higher levels of satisfaction to both workers and management . |
| 23 | Note 1.11.5 Even if we count repeated roots according to their multiplicities ( and it is usual to ) the theorem still holds . |
| 24 | In other cases the doctor may , as a result of a routine check , say you are ill even though you do not feel it . |
| 25 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 26 | There 's no reason why they should n't be funny or gripping even if they do n't use many words . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 29 | He was magnificent , larger even than I had expected , looking almost red against the pale dry grass . |
| 30 | The most celebrated of all the northern constellations is distinctive even though it contains no star as bright as the first magnitude . |