Example sentences of "even [conj] he [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he suggests that the three possibilities need not be mutually exclusive , Baker 's sympathies clearly lie with the last of these ; but many scientists still need convincing that man can make use of a built-in magnetic compass , even if he possesses one . |
| 2 | Even if he lets them do something . |
| 3 | Of course he will feel jealous when a new baby arrives on the scene — even if he does his best not to show it . |
| 4 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not God , even if he thinks he is . ’ |
| 6 | He is n't the director here , even if he thinks he is . |
| 7 | If you knock at the door of the gamekeeper 's house and he comes to the door wearing an antler head-dress , a black satin robe with a pentangle on it , and is holding a headless bleeding chicken in one hand , then even if he gives you permission to camp , think about going to a B & B. Some country folk are best left to their own devices . |
| 8 | Even if he makes it he wo n't be up and around for a month at least . ’ |
| 9 | That even as he gets them in his grip |
| 10 | On the other , simultaneously , He moves across the surface of the sea : upon the face , riding the waves even as He creates them , surfing the world into existence . |
| 11 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 12 | Yet , somehow , even when he gets his facts wrong and becomes trapped in a spiral of tricky tautologies , Durkheim 's way of putting things has a brilliant radiance which few other sociological theorists can match , far less surpass . |
| 13 | And even when he displays them again , he hides their beauty in the multitude . |
| 14 | Gedge has now learned to protect himself and even when he gives his number to friends , he implores them not to pass it on . |
| 15 | I think it would be much more effective if the one who was meant to be the hardhat and who might be expected to let the other one drown in fact saves the other one even though he thinks his ideas about the Indians and his plan to baptise them when they get to the Orinoco are blasphemous . |
| 16 | And newly elected city councillor Sandy Blair says he wo n't be shunning Sinn Fein members even though he loathes their politics . |
| 17 | And he 's already seen you , he likes you , and he 's willing to pay you a professional 's fee even though he knows you 're an amateur , and — ‘ |
| 18 | Even though he knows he can no longer be rendered homeless his feelings of dependence will not have been entirely removed . |
| 19 | But Mark does not like Hockney , even though he knows he should . |
| 20 | All readers probably assimilate Gollum early on to the now-familiar image of a ‘ drug-addict ’ , craving desperately for a ‘ fix ’ even though he knows it will kill him . |
| 21 | Unemployed , he would love to resume a career in football , even though he knows it would have to be in an off-the-field capacity . |
| 22 | At 30 , McEnroe is beginning to incline towards nostalgia , even though he leaves himself with little time to indulge in the luxury . |
| 23 | If the accused leaves without paying because he is absent-minded , he is not liable , and remains not guilty even though he discovers his mistake afterwards . |
| 24 | ‘ But I love him … even though he makes me afraid sometimes . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He 's flexible enough to accept what we 're saying , even though he has his own position , ’ says Grant . |