Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme . |
| 3 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 4 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 5 | The stairs creaked even where he placed his feet carefully at the wall side and the ludicrous self-portrait of himself as a householder properly armed with a poker going upstairs to hunt burglars made him stop to tauten his thoughts . |
| 6 | even though you know Even although you know it . |
| 7 | Practise writing even although you think you 're rotten at it . |
| 8 | ‘ Better even than you promised me . |
| 9 | My main point is , though , not simply that the Webbs ' own general prospectus was wrong , nor even that it misdirected their appraisal of Owen . |
| 10 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 11 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 12 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 13 | Since they would n't want to declare their real objective , even if they had one , they see little point in having one at all . |
| 14 | In the church , the blacks have no hymnbooks , and we are told that even if they had them they probably could not read them , showing that the blacks are oppressed and have no opportunity of an education . |
| 15 | And I 'd swear to that on a stack of any books you consider sufficiently sacred , even if they burn my hypothetical fingers . ’ |
| 16 | Such a placing also ensures that insects coming to feed on it , even if they seek nothing else , are dusted with the pollen that the plants require them to carry . |
| 17 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 18 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 19 | At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps , even if they told their parents , they would fail to understand , or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences . |
| 20 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 21 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 22 | ‘ That 'll cost them the turn-out prize even if they win everything else . |
| 23 | She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world . |
| 24 | Then , even if they lose their foliage in summer , they will surge into growth again in October , as mine did last year . |
| 25 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 26 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 27 | Horses nearly always hesitate when they are led into a dark stable at night , even if they know their dinner is ready and waiting for them there . |
| 28 | ‘ Even if they know what you want to know , they wo n't tell you . |
| 29 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 30 | Even if they get something that 's better than nothing |