Example sentences of "[prep] even [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 3 | A party without influence , a party with opposition to even talk about . |
| 4 | He spoke of his loneliness of heart and spirit that he was n't allowed to even talk to his love , and then , as though remembering that Rosemary had asked Leith to look after him , in his loneliness he suddenly asked Leith to have dinner with him . |
| 5 | It is significant that it is the two major unionist parties who are not prepared to even talk seriously about real constitutional change . ’ |
| 6 | Besides , you know , it 's too trivial , there 's too many important things , like why have n't you got the special offer on display , to even bother to tell why you 're not , why you 're not performing or if anything is n't going right . |
| 7 | It Is an act of courage for a fat woman to even go out in public . |
| 8 | Would it be able to even go further and save other people ? |
| 9 | I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’ |
| 10 | At £166.75 this was far too expensive for most runners to even contemplate . |
| 11 | I want to hear what you 've got to say now 'cos at the moment it 's hard enough listening to your gems to even contemplate buying what 's spouting out of your Arsenal . |
| 12 | Sources inside Price Waterhouse describe the idea as a ‘ bad joke ’ and ‘ too huge to even contemplate ’ . |
| 13 | Assuming £100 a foot to build 60,000 square feet , this would bring the total cost to £20m , a scandalous figure for any efficient organisation to even contemplate . |
| 14 | You will follow every suggestion she makes because the only way you can get back to Paris is on two feet and I doubt your ability to even walk across this room . ’ |
| 15 | But she did not retaliate : she was too upset , almost confused at her previous treatment to even pay attention . |
| 16 | But Reverend Sawyer says his collections and fees simply are n't raising enough money … to even pay for urgent repairs , the sixty regulars in his congretation will have to pay . |
| 17 | Luke 's nearness seemed to reach into her core , sparking off those treacherous currents again , so that to even speak coherently at this moment was monumentally difficult . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not like that , ’ she said huffily , ‘ and you 're very rude to even hint that I might be . |
| 19 | Electronic bite alarms have been invented so the fishermen do n't have to even watch a float . |
| 20 | His marriage had suffered , and his total exhaustion left the father-of-three unable to even cuddle his young children . |
| 21 | Pressure on land may be very strong , making it impossible to raise funds to even acquire the garden , let alone restore it . |
| 22 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 23 | Hannele did not , she did not care to even hide it . |
| 24 | Despite the publicity on transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid to even visit me . |
| 25 | The local television station made much of the rivalry between these two , but , in the event , Prost never got close enough to even suggest the onset of further controversy . |
| 26 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 27 | The reader may be able to even feel concerned for her as she does seem to have a conscience . |
| 28 | He is now too afraid to even feel secure in the forge in case she sees him there . |
| 29 | But I I could n't get over you know , I say , I had a quick look the other at Marks you know , to even do the Christmas serviettes they 're doing a lot more and they said if people are n't buying as much on the clothes side erm so they they 've come down , I mean now I can get erm come over , and I said you 've never looked at Marks I said you never buy clothes , I said have a look in Marks , I said they do some really lovely |
| 30 | In the end the company , under huge pressure from the local community , refused permission for the NIREX surveyors to even make an initial survey of the mine galleries . |