Example sentences of "even [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I felt at home ; and I made a splendid collection of Italian cafe napkins , their corners printed with emblems of the past glory of Ninfania : the Cupid stringing his bow to let fly his darts from the prow in the cafe of the old harbour , and a selection — even I was defeated by the variety — of ice cream wrappers : ‘ Cooky Delight ’ and ‘ Bikini Manhattan ’ and ‘ Magnum Astoria ’ and ‘ Desiree ’ , ‘ Party Craze ’ and ‘ Magic Cola ’ , ‘ Oasis ’ and ‘ Grand Carre ’ , ‘ Card Game ’ and ‘ Tiffany ’ . |
| 2 | Even I was pelted with a couple of little pointed things from the TV Times and was heard to admit that ‘ awards are like haemorrhoids — sooner or later every bum gets one ’ . |
| 3 | Instantly , as if it were a bad oyster , Agnes spat my dick out of her mouth and started shrieking back at this loathed adversary of hers — Agnes 's language , it was unimaginable : even I was grossed out by it . |
| 4 | Even I 'm feeling overwhelmed . |
| 5 | Nobody 's even nobody 's take any notice . |
| 6 | They lost touch for some time with Flora , their first presiding deity , but even she was to reappear in another context , another life . |
| 7 | Mrs Beattie , on the other hand was a free spirit by comparison but even she was conditioned by her class and her religion — she could give nothing away for nothing . |
| 8 | Judy Tuck 's used to most things in her job , but even she was taken aback . |
| 9 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 10 | Even they are fed up with his moods . ’ |
| 11 | But there is another breed of contemporary hard-living actors and even they are having to rethink their lifestyle — the acid-dropping , cocaine-sniffing bums of Beverly Hills . |
| 12 | But even they 're rationed — her father 's a dental technician . |
| 13 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |
| 14 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 15 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 16 | Even they were finding the going hard ; other users had given up , and formed temporary alternative paths in the adjacent fields . |
| 17 | The authorities approached the crisis cautiously ; in Suffolk the dukes arrested only the four principal offenders , and even they were pardoned when they were brought before the Star Chamber ( 66 , pp.115–16 ; 73 , pp.17–19 ) . |
| 18 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 19 | Apart from Ollie Reed ( and even he 's slowing up ) the hellraiser is dead . |
| 20 | Does he not understand that , at a time when even he is forecasting a Europe of up to 30 member states by the end of the century , it is inevitable that the Scottish nation will demand to be a full part of that process of change ? |
| 21 | Brady has a reputation for straight talking , for furious commitment , but even he is beginning to run out of words , to run out of answers . |
| 22 | Only Shotover , a Shavian figure seeking a ‘ mind ray ’ that will destroy his enemies , tries to unite wisdom and power ; and even he is revealed at the last as a rum-soaked old poseur . |
| 23 | But even he was blasted for his portrayal of the evil inquisitor Torquemada . |
| 24 | She was floating along the aisle of a dimly lit church , the only reality the beautiful white dress she was wearing and the man waiting for her at the altar , and even he was shrouded in a mist , preventing her from seeing his face . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , even he was daunted by the sparse length of turf ( with few plants ) that he inherited when moving into his house three years ago . |
| 26 | Yeah but even he was gone the other night . |
| 27 | But during our conversation even he was forced to concede that besides being unable to entertain he would also have to follow events at Hove and Edgbaston over the next few days through newspapers and television . |
| 28 | Bringing up the rear was Sid , but even he was subdued this morning . |
| 29 | In common with most of his contemporaries paying such rates , he was charged twice a year from 1783 onwards at a penny a time , though even he was excused in 1784 on grounds of poverty . |
| 30 | Sometimes even it is desired to vest a power to dissolve in one partner or a specified majority . |