Example sentences of "[modal v] even [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might even say that to call it a statement is misleading . |
| 2 | I might even survive and prosper . |
| 3 | She might even behave and talk like one on occasion . |
| 4 | We might even try and do that . |
| 5 | They could even lose and stay up providing two of their lower-placed rivals lose . |
| 6 | They could even lose and stay up providing two of their lower-placed rivals lose . |
| 7 | Not only could slum youth sometimes afford to pay their fines when they appeared in the police courts — a shocking enough fact to their respectable contemporaries that was often remarked upon — but they could even pick and choose what clothes they would wear when they came to court . |
| 8 | He 'd even smile and greet 'em , |
| 9 | The second ( 2.5.4 ) may even surprise and delight you if you 've not seen it before . |
| 10 | It would still hiss and make noise , but the energy and power were gone ; sometimes it would even shrink and contract within itself . |
| 11 | He also got a copy of the underground railway map , and tried to trace that invisible geography over what he could actually see ; he would even try and trace the map of the flight paths of aeroplanes over the city , deciding which direction indicated which distant country . |
| 12 | Reliable nesting records are scarce or absent , partly because most cotingas build small , inconspicuous nests , which some will even dismantle if disturbed . |
| 13 | If the sexual thwarting becomes acute enough , some cats will even masturbate or attempt to mate with inanimate objects . |
| 14 | Perhaps he will even write and say that he knows nothing of it — that it is the Mayhews , Augusta 's family , who have announced a marriage . |
| 15 | You can even control and create your own exciting laser show . |
| 16 | And yet these species are vanishing at the rate of one every half hour , before we can even identify and research them . |
| 17 | Occasionally , you will meet a brute that refuses to pull away , or can even break or lift the root . |
| 18 | They can not only compensate for declining liquor sales , but can even arrest and reverse that trend . |