Example sentences of "even [subord] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And I 'd swear to that on a stack of any books you consider sufficiently sacred , even if they burn my hypothetical fingers . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 9 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 13 | ‘ That 'll cost them the turn-out prize even if they win everything else . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then , even if they lose their foliage in summer , they will surge into growth again in October , as mine did last year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Even if they know what you want to know , they wo n't tell you . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even if they get something that 's better than nothing |
| 22 | Even if they get me , I 'll go down fighting . ’ |
| 23 | But Dexter countered : ‘ Even if they get their vote , they are only one vote in 20 on the TCCB . ’ |
| 24 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even if they say we want you to open Sundays now , I shall say no . |
| 28 | Even if they say it 's out |
| 29 | Even if they send me out , I will return . |
| 30 | I do n't think they can take any more , you know they 've left nothing there , but now the allies — I do n't think there is much , and even if they have they call them surgical , you know , sight bombing |