Example sentences of "even [conj] she [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London .
2 She did n't know what to do or say , and even if she had her body and mind were incapable of acting on it .
3 Even as she died her foot stayed on the accelerator , leaving the wheels spinning in the white sand to carve out a 2ft deep hole .
4 Even as she offers her diagnosis , she very touchingly envelops it in a renewed insistence on how he was still , in 1935 , ‘ passionate and austere , :
5 Her voice was controlled even as she lifted her hand to silence Emily .
6 Even as she heard her own voice she was horrified by what it was saying , but somehow could n't stop herself , even though it went completely against the grain to tell such blatant lies .
7 Even as she chained her bike up she noticed three different taxis drawing up and depositing their customers .
8 But even as she spoke her body was twisting , lifting almost of its own volition , offering itself to this new intimacy in greedy delight .
9 He could n't be much further from the truth — but , even as she opened her mouth to tell him so , some deep-down instinct stopped her in her tracks .
10 She would have continued to attack him further , but , even as she opened her mouth to tell him exactly what she thought of philandering , two-timing men who played around with their office staff , she heard Ross swearing violently under his breath .
11 Oddly , though , even when she opened her mouth to betray her pact with Naylor , she found that she could not betray him .
12 Even when she shows her body agonisingly engulfed by external forces , Frida Kahlo 's direct gaze out of the canvas and into the eyes of the viewer leaves no doubt that the use of her body as raw material is a very deliberate strategy , and that her immersion in a greater universe is a source of strength , not weakness .
13 Even when she closed her eyes they were still daggered by its scintillations .
14 Acid rose in her throat and , even though she knew her anger was , in truth , directed at Marianne , she could n't prevent it from spilling into her words .
15 Eventually he asked her out , and , even though she knew her parents strongly disapproved of the flashy young man from London , she disobeyed them and started sneaking out of the house every night when they were asleep , to meet him .
16 When the pregnancy was confirmed she was in tears from the shock , even though she had her suspicions when her periods failed to arrive .
17 From what Charles had said , he was pinning his hopes on Guy , for some reason , even though she sensed her brother 's uneasiness .
18 She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father .
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