Example sentences of "even as [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 2 | While other ways of making money become more respectable and sometimes laudable , developers are still seen as the spiritual heirs of Victorian millowners and slum landlords , people who , even as they tear the hearts out of cities , simultaneously give then a fatal sclerosis . |
| 3 | But another level is immediately in question , even as we nominate the group . |
| 4 | Even as we admire the sharpness , the delicacy , of the delineation , of this self-sacrificing old maid , that lowly and tormented man , this uncertain child — even as we admire , we see too the hopelessness that these so powerfully suggest . |
| 5 | Even as he studied the pages of his comic , his ears and senses were alert to the smallest sounds coming from the rest of the house . |
| 6 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
| 7 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 8 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 9 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
| 10 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 11 | Even as he felt the danger of his need sweep over him , he perceived another danger beneath it : he let the pleasure of her carry him off , but within his pleasure 's flow a small bitter seed remained , as it were stuck between his teeth , offering him warning . |
| 12 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you just have to have a flexible mind , ’ said Masklin , knowing even as he said the words that this probably was n't going to be a lot of help . |
| 14 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 15 | He also warned Americans against expecting too much from their government , preaching personal responsibility and a smaller federal bureaucracy , even as he criticised the Republicans for refusing to harness the power of government to cure the nation 's domestic ills . |
| 16 | Even as he closed the door behind him , the thallium was on its way down through Donald 's oesophagus , slithering towards his stomach and digestive tract , where his body chemicals would turn it into a disease Donald would have difficulty in recognizing . |
| 17 | Even as he won the New York primary last week , yet another damaging twist to the army draft-dodging story forced him to mutter implausibly that he had ‘ forgotten ’ about induction papers sent to him , but conveniently overlooked , when he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford . |
| 18 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 19 | Even as he uttered the words a strange noise could be heard from beyond the French windows . |
| 20 | The stab of fiery agony from his injured arm forced a gasp of pain from his throat , even as he completed the rolling movement to regain his feet . |
| 21 | Even as she recognised the skill behind the caress , she was jolted by a dart of sheer untrammelled longing deep within her , and , hard as she tried to fight her own traitorous desires , she knew she was lost . |
| 22 | Yet , even as she shot the denial at him , Lisa was aware of an unexpected reaction within her . |
| 23 | But even as she made the token protest she knew a longing almost painful in its intensity to feel the possession of his mouth all over again . |
| 24 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 25 | Even as she said the words , Rory shuddered , caught in the grip of a sudden , devastating premonition . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't care , ’ she said stubbornly , but even as she said the words she knew they were n't a hundred per cent true . |
| 27 | Even as she uttered the words , she realised how false they were . |
| 28 | But even as she held the knob in her hand and was about to turn it , she hesitated and her arm dropped to her side . |
| 29 | She swore — yet again — that she would leave off the rich food , forget the drink , but even as she making the promise , she knew she would not be able to keep to it . |
| 30 | But she would still be a traitor to grief , watching and listening , even as she spoke the formal words of condolence , for the flicker of an eyelid , the tensing of hands and face muscles , for the unwise word , for any sign that for someone in that waiting house in Campden Hill Square this might not be news at all . |