Example sentences of "i even [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally I even recommend a bank if you should work for a bank you can get the job done for practically nothing I understand and it might be worthwhile . |
| 2 | I even had a tickle between my shoulder-blades that I could n't reach |
| 3 | Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone . |
| 4 | Last week I even had a letter from Yugoslavia asking for a donation towards Disabled Esperantists ! |
| 5 | ‘ I even had a piece of the same wood specially stained for you . ’ |
| 6 | I even had a picture of the evolutionary sequence of bodies leading up to my insects by slow degrees from a dot ancestor . |
| 7 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
| 8 | I even had a tape recorder going , hidden behind the chair . |
| 9 | I even composed a ballad on the subject which was subsequently printed in our Cutter Magazine . |
| 10 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 11 | I even passed a couple of oast houses where hops used to be dried after being picked by families of East Enders for a pittance and a daily beer ration . |
| 12 | One day when I was out in the fields , I even spotted a peregrine falcon high up on one of its hunting trips . |
| 13 | I even got a reprimand from my creep of a Minister . |
| 14 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 15 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 16 | Er I even visit a number of homes and delivered their sick money . |
| 17 | Jane , a 40-year-old systems analyst , sums it up when she comments , ‘ Sometimes weeks can go by before I even get a chance to have a proper conversation with my husband ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm told this war could be all over before I even get a shot at them . ’ |
| 19 | On this stretch , I even saw a taxi . |
| 20 | She looked sad and worried , and I even saw a tear or two on her face . |
| 21 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 22 | aye , cos I even done a toilet with them , |
| 23 | We went everywhere : from garden parties in the grounds of castles , wedding receptions in marquees , hunt balls in assembly rooms , university teas on graduation day , garden fetes in the bishop 's palace , to the annual parties of car salesmen , the golden weddings of simple folk — once I even remember a gypsy funeral — ladies ' night at the masonic lodge , and the British Legion get-together . |
| 24 | While I was with him I even developed a liking for steak tartar . |
| 25 | I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s . |
| 26 | I even have a problem getting mistaken for Margaret out of Brookside — no-one ever recognises me ! |
| 27 | I even have a job title — Special Projects Officer — but I have no work . |
| 28 | Oh God — ca n't I even have a row with you now ? |
| 29 | I even bought a top . |
| 30 | I even bought a set of those flash cards with pictures and words such as Cat , Dog , Rabbit , Mummy and Daddy in my attempt to awake in him a hunger for knowledge . |