Example sentences of "even as he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
| 3 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 4 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 . |