Example sentences of "even [adj] [conj] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the female hormones and predisposition to cellulite becomes even clearer when you consider that oestrogen is also instrumental in controlling fluid retention and this in itself is the crux of the cellulite problem . |
| 2 | They 're probably even clearer if you take this copy of my er which I 'll leave by the door and er we 'll carry on next week . |
| 3 | Disappointments are rare and sometimes people are even better than you 'd imagined . |
| 4 | ( You 'll find it gets even better when you plug it in — Ed . ) |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're reasonably fit you 'll be all right — and it 's even better if you play hockey in one of its forms , ’ he stressed . |
| 6 | You could do it even better if you want with a straight line , if it 's stretch the scales to infinity . |
| 7 | ‘ Even more than you know , ’ he admitted strangely . |
| 8 | In his autobiography he dismissed Gerry Daly as a player ‘ who lacked grey matter ’ and during his days as manager of Derby County he once told a player ‘ You 're very deceptive son — you 're even slower than you look . ’ |
| 9 | Spot on Otto , but it 's even worse than you think . |
| 10 | He looks even worse than you do , Daak . ’ |
| 11 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 12 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's spookier than ever in here , ’ Mary whispered ‘ It 's even worse if you see the headless horseman , ’ Billy replied , with a mischievous grin . |
| 14 | And then that makes it even worse because you go round and round in circles , and you know and the more |
| 15 | The risk is even higher if you smoke and drink heavily . |
| 16 | Mountain biking is wonderful — you 're on top of the world while you 're pedalling and even higher when you 've finished . |
| 17 | ‘ This Carter is odd — I mean , even odder than you 've got reason to think . |