Example sentences of "even [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disconcertingly to those who remember him as Old Stoneface , he even laughs occasionally now . |
| 2 | You see , Batman sounds good , looks good and even plays well , but the levels tend to last a little too long ; a password system would have been welcome . |
| 3 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 6 | If one were to pursue the analogy with Freud rigorously , Althusser is even suggesting here that the primacy of the economic ( ego ) is a delusion , and that the superstructure ( unconscious ) is the more fundamental determining force , or at the very least that they are equally overdetermined . |
| 7 | One of the thematic optional units ( perhaps even taught backwards ) could serve the same purpose . |
| 8 | Even using apparently direct measures of morbidity is problematical , as reporting may be different between social groups , especially in response to general questions such as the ‘ limiting longstanding sickness ’ item in the general household survey and 1991 census . |
| 9 | They should be reminded too that canned baked beans in tomato sauce are highly nutritious and can be a quick and convenient addition to many main meals or can even make quite a good meal on their own if they are served on buttered toast . |
| 10 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 11 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |
| 12 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
| 13 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 14 | So he had not destroyed most of the buildings , along with their inhabitants , had even erected more and improved the walls and defences . |
| 15 | Pins and needles can even hurt so much that we would almost prefer to let the leg sleep on . |
| 16 | It was as if we had n't even parted really . |
| 17 | And then his own special moment of elation : the overture , the rustle , the curtain up , and suddenly his tacky , ragtag little chorus was out there , looking wonderful , moving well , even singing better ! |
| 18 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 19 | I 'm so jealous I ca n't even think straight when — ’ |
| 20 | People were very impressed by horses which could canter on three legs , and even canter backwards ! |
| 21 | Other automated items such as baskets and shake alarms ( signalling the moment during cooking when it is necessary to shake the basket so as to ensure even cooking throughout ) are already available as an option on many machines , while some units will even tell you when to change the oil ! |
| 22 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 23 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 24 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 26 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 27 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 28 | He even goes so far , as to claim that ‘ notionally , in the short term you could achieve the necessary revenue only with the IBM customers … |
| 29 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 30 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |