Example sentences of "even [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penman had even filled a port decanter , Alexandra noticed , deducing quite rightly , that as she would hardly drink any , Christmas munificence would prompt her to tell him to help himself . |
| 2 | ‘ Strangely enough , I have n't even heard a whisper about it , ’ he said . |
| 3 | People were stopping outside the office where it took place and whispering to each other — someone had even placed a bouquet of flowers at the door that morning . |
| 4 | It strings a series of acceptably lucky events ( random mutations ) together in a nonrandom sequence so that , at the end of the sequence , the finished product carries the illusion of being very very lucky indeed , far too improbable to have come about by chance alone , even given a timespan millions of times longer than the age of the universe so far . |
| 5 | You should n't have even given a sign all that you recognized that man . |
| 6 | Later , when tempers had cooled , her father , Mirza Farkunda Zamal , had been awarded a pension by the penitent British authorities ; he was even given a seat of honour at the first Delhi Durbar in 1877 . |
| 7 | So far the Government have not even given a commitment to reimburse the full cost of that . |
| 8 | However , this remarkable literary work — even given an army of fans as keen as his niece — would not have brought in very much income , nor would the journalism , and it was to be assumed the trust provided the rest . |
| 9 | Some feminist psychologists have even developed a kind of biological egalitarianism as a corrective to psychology 's male-oriented biological theories . |
| 10 | While I was with him I even developed a liking for steak tartar . |
| 11 | The pig has even developed a taste for bones . |
| 12 | Since Hannah lived in total isolation for more than twenty-five years , never married or even formed a relation ship with a man , it is not surprising that most of the care and affection she had to offer was lavished on animals . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've only had twelve hours ’ flying instruction and flown one solo — never even frightened a German — but people keep telling me I 've saved Britain . |
| 14 | But he had not even caught a glimpse of a young girl . |
| 15 | The boys knew all the local hostelries and Jimmy even owned a car , a rather wheezy Austin 7 , which had certainly seen its best days but still managed to clank around the country lanes when petrol was available . |
| 16 | Religion , or what the Chinese used to call " the mandate of heaven " , has not been entirely displaced , and in the Islamic world has even enjoyed a revival . |
| 17 | ‘ It even included a piece by Anthony Burgess — not a figure usually associated with the alternative culture — on ‘ flower language ’ . |
| 18 | ( We 've even included a baby sitting service ! ) |
| 19 | Well I 've sent my tips to Corky , returned my ‘ surveying the scene ’ and even included an SAE ! |
| 20 | So they all have somewhere to unwind after work , De Niro has even installed a restaurant downstairs , the deliberately downhome Tribeca Bar and Grill . |
| 21 | The cache system survives , and I 've even added a couple of petrol bombs to one or two of the secret stores , where a likely avenue of attack comes in over terrain the bottles would smash on , but the trip-wires I 've dismantled and left in the shed . |
| 22 | Some joker had even added a tin of Doggie Dins . |
| 23 | Since then Allison Gregg and Alan Neale have changed solicitors twice , and even won a court order against the developer , awarding them £51,000 , money they did n't get because the developer had gone bust . |
| 24 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 25 | Critical respect is no problem — and the innovative video for his last album , Infected , even won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival , despite the troubling sexism of a couple of its sequences . |
| 26 | He had even won a writing prize while in prison for a story on Joplin 's last days . |
| 27 | It 's all been condensed into two hours , and they 've even built a replica set of city gates over an old railway bridge . |
| 28 | He had been surprised at Sam 's willingness to stay , and had even felt a flicker of jealousy when he had flopped contentedly down in the grass beside the boy 's feet . |
| 29 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 30 | Artis even made a plaster bust of Clare , who once described his friend as ‘ a clever man & everything but a poet ’ . |