Example sentences of "even [conj] it meant [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 3 | Mr Sugar also claimed that Mr Venables had told him before he was sacked as chief executive last month that he was prepared to embark on a ‘ suicide mission ’ , even if it meant he finished up broke . |
| 4 | Accepting the only logical course of action the robots had shut down the machine , even though it meant they too sank into inertia as a consequence . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought perhaps things would be better if we had some time away from each other , so I agreed , even though it meant her taking time off from school before the end of term . |
| 6 | Like Donald Wilson before , Newman accepted the strength of the ‘ Dalek Factor ’ and agreed to let Verity Lambert handle Doctor Who her way after that , even though it meant his sacrificing part of the ideals he had intended the show to represent . |