Example sentences of "not even [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never thought to see such nastiness , not even serving the Gruagach , I did n't . |
| 2 | It was a small success , very far from proving who murdered Hal MacQuillan and not even proving who typed the letter but it was a promising line of inquiry : MacQuillan had been detested , his death had been welcomed and someone , who was probably on his staff , had actually thought of killing him . |
| 3 | From that occasion Halima learnt that the fastest way to get a bucket of oats was to stand in the fence , and not even feeding excessive amounts of hay or removing the bottom two wires from the fence had the slightest effect in breaking this bad habit . |
| 4 | At the time I was not even listening properly . |
| 5 | He has a vision of the caseworker as becoming increasingly abstract , first not commenting , then not even uttering sympathetic noises , finally not even listening ; merely a benign presence disposing to good . |
| 6 | God Almighty , she 's not even listening . |
| 7 | In America , the big four organisations — ABC , NBC , CBS and CNN — are not even sending their London-based crews to Scotland . |
| 8 | I 'm not even dreading work . |
| 9 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |
| 10 | From an average of 2,000–3,000 exiles a year during Alexander I 's reign , by the middle of the century as many as 17 , 18 , or even 19,000 exiles were being annually transported to settle in Siberia — not even counting those sentenced to katorga . |
| 11 | He was not even wearing a watch and he needed a shave . |
| 12 | Why , he is not even wearing respectable clothes ! " |
| 13 | He was most likely not even reading the Strand , but sniffing it and with it the atmosphere around him . |
| 14 | Dennis was knocking the stuff back like lager , not even bothering with his usual patter . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ he said , not even bothering to look up from the menu . |
| 16 | Mandeville snapped , not even bothering to turn his head . |
| 17 | They passed an old horse pulling a cart full of apples , the driver not even bothering to turn to acknowledge their presence . |
| 18 | But the sight of Elise 's work , hanging in Luke 's house , had caught her unawares , underlining her loss and , at the same time , reminding her that on the only occasion when Elise 's name had been mentioned Luke had adopted an attitude of total indifference , not even bothering to mention that he owned one of Elise 's paintings . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll take them , ’ she said decisively , not even bothering to haggle over the price , knowing that she could n't have found anything even remotely comparable at home . |
| 20 | Everyone 's so busy looking at it they 're not even bothering to try and get on the roundabout . |
| 21 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 22 | He batted it away impatiently , not even pausing to consider how quickly he 'd adjusted to Yukio 's death . |
| 23 | It 's not even moving ! ’ |
| 24 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 25 | Not even thinking to stop , Jack dashed through and then whirled round as someone yelled out , ‘ You ! ’ |
| 26 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 27 | All she felt was a kind of blankness ; she was now so afraid that she 'd become detached , a spectator , not even thinking any more about escape . |
| 28 | He got out his gun , slowly , not even thinking , |
| 29 | I had to remind myself sternly that Thornfield was not my permanent home , and that the person I was so looking forward to seeing was perhaps not even thinking of me . |
| 30 | It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it ! |