Example sentences of "even [subord] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The chantry certificates of 1545 , even if one accepts their record of communicants in the parishes as accurate , do not cover the whole country , and again there is uncertainty as to the proportion of the population below communicant age . |
| 4 | And I 'd swear to that on a stack of any books you consider sufficiently sacred , even if they burn my hypothetical fingers . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then , even if they lose their foliage in summer , they will surge into growth again in October , as mine did last year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Dexter countered : ‘ Even if they get their vote , they are only one vote in 20 on the TCCB . ’ |
| 9 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 10 | Students who are normally resident in Northern Ireland are not normally eligible for postgraduate awards from award-giving bodies in Great Britain even if they undertook their first degree at a university or polytechnic in Great Britain . |
| 11 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 13 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 14 | Parents that lack such feelings , and there are many , even if they do their duty ‘ for duty 's sake ’ are nonetheless thought to be morally deficient . |
| 15 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 16 | Even if we win our two outstanding games we would be virtually seven points behind . |
| 17 | The Caribbean — even if we restrict our focus of interest to the formerly British parts — is not linguistically homogeneous . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Even if we restrict our attention to those trajectories in our strange invariant set , we can see that almost all pairs of trajectories started at points close together on the top face of the box B will not remain close together as we follow them around . |
| 19 | I mean the product might might work for you and me and it might not it will work the same for them , even if we try our hardest . |
| 20 | Many of us find that even if we bin our junk mail , it continues to arrive . |
| 21 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 22 | But what we realized was that even if we hit his estimates we were still gon na be worse off . |
| 23 | The no evidence doctrine was commonly taken to mean that a decision will not be regarded as outside of the jurisdiction of the decision-maker even if he reached his decision on no evidence . |
| 24 | Worse , even if he accepted her warning , what if he refused to take her with him , thinking what he did of her ? |
| 25 | Of course he will feel jealous when a new baby arrives on the scene — even if he does his best not to show it . |
| 26 | ‘ Lordship ’ had the belligerence of Bertie 's Aunt Agatha , even if he retained her nephew 's lisp . |
| 27 | And even if you lose your statutory job rights for a period while working abroad , you may regain them if you return to work in this country . |
| 28 | Do n't give them sole selling rights , because you will have to pay them commission even if you sell your property privately . |
| 29 | You 're in a dead end as far as Charlie 's records are concerned , and even if you get your hands on them you 've no guarantee they 'll be of any use . |
| 30 | I 've always accepted that you 're in love with him , even if you conduct your relationship in a way most people would find inexplicable . ’ |