Example sentences of "even [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 2 | She even knew of a cleaner she was sure would be able and willing . |
| 3 | He acted with his usual promptitude , and a papal legate had arrived in England with the pallium before Anselm even knew of the king 's decision . |
| 4 | But , as Lodge says , ‘ he was thinking his way , with the minimum of intellectual and material support , through the questions which preoccupy us , decades before we even thought of them . ’ |
| 5 | Henrietta Louisa , Countess of Pomfret , after whom the house is named , was so utterly besotted with the Gothic taste that she even thought of encasing Hawksmoor 's classical Easton Neston in the style . |
| 6 | Sometimes I even thought of you as one of my favourite fictional heroines , Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss , while I was Philip Waken , though not such a limp type . |
| 7 | I even thought of making some up . |
| 8 | He claimed that after confessing to them , Newall had planned to flee to Brazil and told police he even thought of shooting his way to freedom after his arrest . |
| 9 | You had to show that you understood the suffering , knew the price it exacted , as a fellow human being , before you even thought of bringing Christ into it . |
| 10 | By now she 'd definitely come to pin the blame on the stuff they 'd had to drink ; every time she even thought of it she came close to throwing up . |
| 11 | It was never th not a , never even thought of . |
| 12 | I even thought of trying to grab it from her but she put it away in the drawer where she kept it and stood in front of it . |
| 13 | They had her phone bugged before we even thought of going there — and they were never going to leave her alive once they 'd started asking her questions ; how could they ? |
| 14 | I felt , I felt , I never even thought of I mean I I never felt nothing for Rosalind no interest or anything . |
| 15 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 16 | god dear me , who ever even thought of it look stopped now |
| 17 | Certainly it was the largest grossing twelve inch of all time , moving Factory Records into worldwide markets they never even dreamed of reaching . |
| 18 | Nobody even complained of stomach ache . |
| 19 | Marshall was freed , and detectives even spoke of arresting our reporters . |
| 20 | She even spoke of Honor West 's misery and her own guilt because she had let Mother Benedicta down . |