Example sentences of "and even [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As we can see , horses have , and even suffer from , many emotions .
2 Both types of albino child are photophobic , that is , they will be distressed and even suffer pain when in bright light and most will wear dark glasses to alleviate this .
3 They may also be concerned with relating these types to the symbolic meaning of each code within the community ( an aim which brings them within the scope of ( 3 ) below ) and even seek to establish a theory with predictive power , i.e. the ability to predict instances of switching within a stretch of discourse .
4 This was not uncommon in some mining districts and even existed in the craft trade of hat making , the artisans who took in their wives to pick the coarse hairs from their material saving the 6 to 9s ( 30-45p ) a week which they would otherwise have had to pay from their wage .
5 He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen .
6 The villain of the piece may begin a hero and even contain some hope ( Lenny , from Of Mice and Men ) then a flaw becomes apparent , and they then disembowel or impair themselves ( or have it done to them ) as an act of retribution .
7 Cards can be pre-issued , integrated into automatic check-out systems , integrated into service out systems , integrated into service facilities and even contain key combinations and guest information for multiple lodging within the same hotel group .
8 She could n't yet use terms like ‘ harmony of form ’ and ‘ tonal value ’ with comfort , and she decided that perhaps she did n't want to , but there was something so fresh and vivid about Faye 's work , she was starting to love it … and even to love each funny figure in each painting that was herself .
9 Waiting for his break , he supported himself with a series of odd jobs : driving limos , handing out cigarette samples and even dressing up in a giant chicken costume to promote a fast-food franchise .
10 Even so , the last two years of peace were for Baldwin a time of interest , enjoyment and even influence , compared with what was to come afterwards .
11 Scores of supply vessels , tugs and survey ships filled every nook and cranny and even spilled over into the fish docks .
12 These children were permitted to wash and dress , and even to take with them pendants their father gave them .
13 But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ .
14 She immediately recognized Angel 's brothers and even overheard some of their conversation .
15 In fact the people who Jesus chose to spend time with , to care for and even to heal were not the ‘ successful ’ people of his day but the Brian Smarts of his day .
16 Cornish Adventure Sailing will do all this and even take you across the Bay of Biscay to La Coruna in northern Spain .
17 Such groups can lead to valuable exchanges of feelings and knowledge between the generations ; many focus on particular interests , hobbies and pursuits , and where appropriate older people should be encouraged to join , and even take a lead in their running and organization .
18 His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ .
19 I knew that Sarah would treat the child as her own , and even take him from me , but at the time I did not mind — what was mine was hers .
20 Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult .
21 What is of importance is an indication that television might worsen a psychological problem which is already present in the child , and even make delinquent suggestions to a youngster already on the slippery path to delinquency .
22 Many types of cell will divide in such cultures , ; although neurons will not do so , they can grow , put out axons and dendrites and even make synaptic connections .
23 rebate now and even make it retroactive .
24 It is true that when historians come to the basic task of source evaluation and exploitation , they will not be able to examine the alterations and check the handwriting but strategies of text analysis are already available which will allow researchers to evaluate authorship and even make judgements on changing style within an individual author 's corpus of text ( Holmes 1991 ) .
25 The following afternoon — i.e. the day the Germans made their most menacing gains — he telephoned that the attack had ‘ slowed down and it looked as though we would be able to hold out and even make a counter-attack ’ .
26 Her family she could stand , and even regarded some of them as having qualities superior to her own , arrogant as she knew she was .
27 It is these aspects which might surprise and even refresh those readers who have been brought upon a strict diet of formal , objective research papers , and which constitute one of the differing dimensions of action research .
28 You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ?
29 Cobra can cut , trim , weld , and even drill holes in a variety of materials .
30 We agree heartily with those that assert that IBM 's mid-range groups could embarrass and even hurt the company 's mainframe division by fielding impressively more clever and vastly more efficient computers .
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