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 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 3 | Interestingly , they sound radically different , and different even before you plug them in . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ ? |
| 5 | Above : The Scissortail is very popular even though it lacks any bright colouring . |
| 6 | Stay assertive even when you do n't feel like it and especially when dealing with a submissive or aggressive person . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | And you can also get lost even if you do say the script because I said to Roger I , I 've |
| 12 | Sitting at table with these guests I would have felt uncomfortable even if I had n't robbed my sister . |
| 13 | He ignores information on the left even though he has no left visual field loss . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In other cases the doctor may , as a result of a routine check , say you are ill even though you do not feel it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There 's no reason why they should n't be funny or gripping even if they do n't use many words . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way . |
| 19 | The most celebrated of all the northern constellations is distinctive even though it contains no star as bright as the first magnitude . |
| 20 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 21 | You wo n't be late even if you insist on walking into town rather than accept a lift off me . |
| 22 | These can be just as useful even if you do not have the benefit of an instant peer group with whom to celebrate or commiserate on your shared experience . |
| 23 | I do n't think they 'd have been impressed even if he 'd told them |
| 24 | Nevertheless , in a group of neurotic patients , a placebo was effective even when they knew the pills they were taking were inert . |
| 25 | Wallace was great even when he took a knock early in the 2nd half ( Strandli should have been on sooner ) . |
| 26 | Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him . |
| 27 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 28 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 29 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 30 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |