Example sentences of "even [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not even registered as born . ’ |
| 2 | There seems to be absolutely no evidence in favour of this second , crucial assumption ( nor is there evidence against ; the issue is remarkably unresearched and rarely even regarded as worth discussing ; see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Again , infantile masturbation and other sexual practices are tolerated — even regarded as amusing by adults — and certainly are not prohibited or censored . |
| 4 | They were remote from the centre of political power in London and were even regarded as peripheral by many of the leaders of the labour movement . |
| 5 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 6 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 7 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 8 | ‘ Mutual ! ’ echoed Theda crossly , not even noticing as her father and the lawyer left them together and closed the library door . |
| 9 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
| 10 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 11 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 12 | So far as the families of those involved in disciplinary proceedings are concerned , we do not even count as worth a thought ( ‘ Guilty until proven innocent ’ , 4 March ) . |
| 13 | Instead we are now saying , ‘ I know this diet and exercise plan is working for me ’ , ‘ this time I am going to reach my weight and inch goal ’ , ‘ because I never feel hungry and I am eating the foods I enjoy , I do n't even feel as though I 'm dieting ’ . |
| 14 | As usual he was offering explanations for what other people had not even noticed as problems |
| 15 | He did n't even speak as he opened the passenger door for her , but when they were both seated inside , he did n't start the engine , simply sat there instead , gazing out over the slightly sloping and now largely empty car park . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Get loads of things , oh you 've even got as well ! |
| 18 | He doubted if his pulse had even quickened as he killed . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't even look as though you 're going to . ’ |
| 20 | He did n't even look as though he had heard . |
| 21 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 22 | An old man , flab hoisted by plastiskin into the semblance of youthful buttocks and belly , strolled past in a scanty g-string but the game was given away by the static pads of fake muscle that did n't even twitch as he walked . |
| 23 | It often marches steadily in even crotchets as in Monteverdi 's already mentioned ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ ( which he styles ‘ canzonetta ’ presumably because of its light-handed tunefulness ) . |
| 24 | It even grew as the century went on . |
| 25 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 26 | Of medium height and packed with energy , even distressed as he was , he was bursting round the kitchen , hair still damp at the back from his swim . |
| 27 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 28 | In these respects this Jesus strikes at the heart of the Jacob/Esau stories , and must present the most radical challenge to the story of the people of Jericho , who are not even left as bystanders , but are trampled into God 's ground and burnt to a cinder . |
| 29 | He had no trouble grasping her meaning , she saw , and he even smiled as he replied , ‘ You 're too sharp , Leith . |
| 30 | Even standing as independents in April 's elections , their candidates won about 13 per cent of the vote . |