Example sentences of "not even [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some wills assumed this as an inexcludable entitlement and did not even mention it . |
| 2 | It was as if he did not even feel it , for there was no response . |
| 3 | was that he might look straight at her and not even know her . |
| 4 | Or worse , not even noticed me ? |
| 5 | He had probably not even noticed her , a tall , rather too thin woman of thirty odd , with dark auburn hair . |
| 6 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 7 | I understand you did not even pay her for her work . |
| 8 | For a start , Ukraine does not even control them . |
| 9 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 10 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |
| 11 | The calf was sold long ago , and she would not even recognize it now if it ambled into the yard . |
| 12 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 13 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 14 | You 've not even made him a potful . |
| 15 | It does not even oblige us to assert that nothing but classics , or philosophy , or mathematics , or PPE is education . |
| 16 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 17 | The theory is that pupils will be so busy trying to follow the gossip in Le Retour de l'Errant ( pay attention — that 's the Rovers Return ) they will not even realise they are learning the lingo . |
| 18 | Sometimes they do not even realise they are pregnant . |
| 19 | He may not even realise he is n't giving the others a chance . |
| 20 | I felt ashamed and kept the secret , not even sharing it with Pam until we were in our twenties . |
| 21 | She had not even sent me a picture postcard . |
| 22 | It was rumoured that Alam wanted Khomeini executed in 1963 but other religious leaders prevailed upon the Shah not even to put him on trial . |
| 23 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 24 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 25 | The driver had not even seen him . |
| 26 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 27 | So has team-mate Gehan Mendis , with worse still for Graeme Fowler , who was fined about £2000 for being so critical of the club , even though some of his offending remarks did not even make it into print . |
| 28 | But he could not say Vivien 's name then , he could not even think it , only look about him fearfully , clenching his hands . |
| 29 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 30 | They 're not even afford it . |