Example sentences of "even [conj] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What with the doctor going straight out and the deceased going down to the kitchen to thank both staff for a very good meal there was n't time — even if she took it herself , which is unlikely from all I hear . ’ |
| 2 | Even if she took it into her head to come back early , she would n't be back till half four at the earliest . |
| 3 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Would Dick , even if she wished it , still want to marry her ? |
| 7 | But he would n't believe it even if she said it , she decided . |
| 8 | Even if she saw him she would n't expect anything evil to happen . |
| 9 | Bathsheba knew that he would always give his honest opinion , even if she asked him whether she should marry another man , and there was nobody else she could trust . |
| 10 | Some expressed the fear that she would be humiliated if she carried on , or that even if she won she would be leading a demoralised party . |
| 11 | It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator . |
| 12 | And even if she did she 'd hardly be likely to tell me — it would have been gossip . |
| 13 | And even if she did she 'd never get her hands dirty helping in a kitchen ! ’ |
| 14 | She do n't ask me if I want to go with her , but even if she did I would n't go . |
| 15 | Yet even if she suspected it , Paige could n't be sure . |
| 16 | Even if she hated him . |
| 17 | The note embarrassed her considerably , although she suspected , even while she read it , that it was a dream . |
| 18 | Karenin was a direct result of that society and even before she left him she knew there was no way out because she was n't strong enough to sacrifice her position in society . |
| 19 | He caught her by the waist , in a half rugby tackle , lifted her up , spun her around and in one fell swoop had hoisted her on to his shoulders even before she realised what was happening . |
| 20 | And the strangest thing of all — and I 'm sure you noticed it too — she denied delivering me even before she knew who my mother was . ’ |
| 21 | Betty had heard the car stop in the lane and had begun to frighten herself even before she heard someone slip in the stream and swear , long before the knock on the door . |
| 22 | She knew it was Stephen even before she picked it up . |
| 23 | I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With what remained of her objective consciousness Louisa strove to tell herself that this encounter was not of her reality , not of her willing … but even as she struggled she felt herself drawn under the influence of a mind at once alien and familiar — a mind resolute to lacerate its own fine sensibility , and with a perverse , intellectual sang-froid . |
| 26 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 27 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 28 | She had deluded herself ; she had believed that innocence of spirit and a devout purpose were adequate guides through this treacherous domain , but the facts were clear enough now : she had diminished mystery to pious platitude , and some devious element at work in the deeps of her imagination was scorning her efforts even as she made them … |
| 29 | But even as she thought it , she knew she would n't go . |
| 30 | But , even as she thought it , she rejected the question and felt a surge of anger go darting through her . |