Example sentences of "even as [pron] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
| 4 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 5 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even as he uttered the words a strange noise could be heard from beyond the French windows . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet , even as she shot the denial at him , Lisa was aware of an unexpected reaction within her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even as she said the words , Rory shuddered , caught in the grip of a sudden , devastating premonition . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Even as she uttered the words , she realised how false they were . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Even as she pondered the question , Silas came into the office . |
| 26 | But even as she framed the words in her mind , confidence deserted her . |
| 27 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 28 | I seized that bloody pole , swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me , waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp . |
| 29 | I sobbed with fright , even as I addressed the one and only question which confronted me in such a dangerous situation . |
| 30 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |