Example sentences of "even if [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 17 | It made him feel powerful , that was it , because he paid , he bought and , even if they hated him , they sold . |
| 18 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 19 | She was going to hit him , even if they threw her in jail again . |
| 20 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 21 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 22 | Heathen savages are unlikely to belong to any church and even if they did there 's no blessing for a fool who takes his own life . ’ |
| 23 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 24 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 25 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 26 | Because even if somebody said I would like that training if it 's not available you ca n't just turn around and say well tough it 's not available you ca n't |
| 27 | that , even if we knew it once again , |
| 28 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 29 | Even if we made somebody 's up . |
| 30 | Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case . |