Example sentences of "even [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 2 | The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation . |
| 3 | Even if I went into my bedroom to read or do homework , I 'd still have her sitting there on my huge falconer 's glove , fidgeting and glaring at me . |
| 4 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 5 | ‘ I sha n't be going far — even if I go at all . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll not go without for no one , even if I go to prison for life . |
| 7 | And even if I go to bed I ca n't sleep . |
| 8 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 9 | Moreover , my mother , who worried even if I travelled to London , was initially distraught by the idea . |
| 10 | But I , I really want to have like a even if I stayed in Switzerland , because have mind so . |
| 11 | Even if I cast through this gap accurately , the speed of the cast must be faultless too , for the gap between the branches and the roots is a mere two feet : too far and I am in the roots , too near and my bait will not be lying where I want it . |
| 12 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 13 | There is no way that I could skive a session , even if I wanted to , wearing my yellow and tartan suit ! |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing I can do to prolong the girl 's stay here , even if I wanted to . ’ |
| 15 | Kate sighed ‘ Anyway , I could n't stop James , even if I wanted to . |
| 16 | There 's no going back , even if I wanted to , which I do n't . |
| 17 | ‘ I like him very well , ma'am , ’ Theda said quickly , ‘ but I could n't marry him even if I wanted to — which I do n't . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Not even if I wanted to . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't even if I wanted to , and I do n't want to . |
| 20 | ‘ My mother was an only child , so my grandfather Probert entailed Gullholm on me , which means I could n't sell the place , even if I wanted to . |
| 21 | ‘ Brother , ’ he had replied , ‘ I can do very little , even if I wanted to . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got to try it on , even if I decide on something less saucy , ’ she laughed , her eyes alight with excitement . |
| 23 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 24 | Oh , I confess to feeling a pang when I first saw David again — I would n't be human if I had n't — but , as I said before , it was over between us a very long time ago , probably even before I fell for Paul if the truth be known . ’ |
| 25 | I FELL in love with jazz even before I fell in love with wine — I 'm talking about great , improvised , live jazz and , of course , great bottles of wine ; both darned hard to describe , poignantly ephemeral and profoundly moving experiences . |
| 26 | ‘ Even before I went to Italy and married Ludo I never really knew her . |
| 27 | As a first step to achieving it I made up my mind , even before I went to Eton , to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 28 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 29 | But even as I engaged in the ritual unarmed combat with Springsteen ( well , I was unarmed ) over possession of the duvet , I had a nasty feeling that I was n't taking this whole thing seriously enough . |
| 30 | Even as I snatch for weapons , whip-tendrils seize my wrists and my neck . |