Example sentences of "even [conj] you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And even if you remain in the same location , you could still feel unsettled . |
2 | Even if you fall in love with the first one you see , it 's important to be able to make comparisons . |
3 | Even if you try at something and fail the first time , have another go . |
4 | You wo n't be late even if you insist on walking into town rather than accept a lift off me . |
5 | ( Even if you knew in advance what the bill might be ? ) |
6 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
7 | The price you see is the price you pay — even if you wait for a late booking ! |
8 | Even if you admit to being at fault , you may wish management to take fuller account of mitigating factors or to impose a lesser punishment . |
9 | Even if you had to after Christmas take it back they wo n't know . |
10 | Low-voltage lights are a good idea as you wo n't get an electric shock from them , even if you cut through the cable when digging . |
11 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
12 | I mean , even if you go for a , a Chinky or an Indian it 's |
13 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |
14 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
15 | Even if you succeed in building up a good practice as a junior your troubles will not be at an end , because at that point in your career you will have to decide whether to apply for silk . |
16 | It does n't multiload presentation screens , but it does force you to reload Level One even if you died on it , and automatically restarts when loading is complete — if you go and make a cup of tea between levels , chances are you 'll be greeted with a ‘ game over ’ message when you return ! |
17 | Even if you went to the police now , your story does n't shed any light on who did it . |
18 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
19 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
20 | Now it 's very late , and even if you feel like standing there playing games , I do n't . ’ |
21 | It 's too complicated to explain er why this happens , but such simulations have been done , notably about Parker Baker and Smith who did the famous one and it does suggest that if you start off , even if you start of with similar size , that is sex cells , they will be driven by a competition for reproductive success to the extremes and you 'll end up with two extreme types , a large type proto-ovum and a tiny type , a proto- sperm . |
22 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
23 | Be There — even if you have to hock your last Hermes scarf to raise the fare . |
24 | Even if you work in a large consultancy of the future where a media department controls the production , you will still probably have to write . |
25 | Even if you belong to the getting-away-with-murder group , the time will come when you have to follow the rules precisely in order to maintain a speedy weight loss . |
26 | They prove that the flab fights back — and will get you even if you happen to be a Royal . |
27 | You do n't go to silly films , even if you want to ; you do n't read cheap newspapers ; you do n't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly ; you do n't waste time talking about nothing . |
28 | The whole system of things and people which surrounds us coerces us to be conformist ; even if you want to be a social rebel you will still have to go about things in a conventional way if you are to gain recognition and not be rated as insane . |
29 | Late-twentieth century culture is hard enough to fathom , even if you live within its centrifugal core . |
30 | You can apply whether you are a tenant of a local authority , a new town development corporation , a private landlord or a housing association , or even if you live in a hostel . |