Example sentences of "even [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 2 | But even incinerated household rubbish , the cleanest sort , that a British firm planned to import from Zurich angered towns near the intended burial site . |
| 3 | Some householders had even placed lantern horns outside their house , the weak flame of the candles fluttering in their protective iron grilles against the cool evening breeze . |
| 4 | Before the swing is even given consideration the search may start for some new equipment ; maybe a driver that hits a high draw from the tee . |
| 5 | However , by the end of the month Israel had not even received confirmation that Arad was still alive . |
| 6 | She has even received death threats from IRA sympathisers who , in hate-filled letters , have said her son deserved to die . |
| 7 | Delinquents have more commonly been the victims of adult assaults — often of a vicious , persistent and even calculated nature — than non-delinquents . |
| 8 | Only five per cent of those who bought for cash said they had even considered credit as an alternative . |
| 9 | I 've even considered hypnosis , but I do n't think either you or she would want that . ’ |
| 10 | Broadcasting policy involved not only state-controlled or public service radio and television but also the cinema , the press and advertising : the state aided financially , partly regulated , and even owned film studios , newspapers and advertising agencies — but , since the Liberation , the mentality in all three was worlds removed from the bureaucratic tradition of state broadcasting . |
| 11 | The er , book is based on an inaccurate and sometimes even fabricated evidence , due probably to the er , rather idealistic er , excitable ambitious er Bullett , rather than the peaceful like of Freud . |
| 12 | By contrast , serosal 5HT had no effect on transit ; others have even reported inhibition of peristalsis by 5HT . |
| 13 | The Independent 's even reported News International for predatory pricing . |
| 14 | She had even let Doc Threadneedle into her greymass to plug a few loops , although she did n't want too much done in there . |
| 15 | The 16 members of the New York-based ring , which netted about £2 million , even carried business cards advertising their violent trade as Midnight Auto Supply . |
| 16 | Although the reduced percentage of aneuploid tumours can be interpreted as a local response to radiotherapy the missing effect on survival points to the fact that oesophageal cancer is often diagnosed at a locally advanced or even disseminated stage . |
| 17 | Gilligan was even named woman of the year by Ms magazine in 1984 . |
| 18 | I had n't even grown hair on mine . |
| 19 | They 're angry he was even granted permission to appeal . |
| 20 | I mean you we , we have made , you know , black wedding cakes for people that feel , something like that , we 've even made divorce cakes , so you do n't have to get married to have one ! |
| 21 | He had repeated , over and over again , what Gigia had said , of her humiliation before Ellen Wilson , of how she had not even seen Oreste . |
| 22 | Perhaps it would have been better if this last week had never happened , if she had never even met Fen Marshall . |
| 23 | Wakefield even secured election to the small but immensely rich see of Ely in June 1373 , but such was the disarray round the old king that Edward III also nominated his confessor , John Woodruff . |
| 24 | With the backing of the BBC , the guarded co-operation of the couple and the collaboration of a fine screenwriter , Andrew Davies , a full-length film drama was prepared and Gerard even secured permission to film in Cape Town . |
| 25 | Prince Charles 's spokesman even turned chauffeur for the three-strong crew shooting the January TV special on the royals and privacy . |
| 26 | Britons were soon enjoying new and exciting things to eat — Roman snails cooked in wine sauce , and even stuffed dormice prepared in many different ways . |
| 27 | The prospect of the moth scam was so exciting we even bought platform tickets so as not to blow it at the development stage . |
| 28 | That problem was remedied in 1805 when the completion of the Grand Junction Canal , 93 miles long , even avoided use of the narrow and circuitous Oxford Canal and took an astonishing 131 miles off the journey . |
| 29 | Again , Newton had n't even drawn breath when Don Howe masterminded Arsenal 's double triumph in 1971 , but his sure touch and attention to detail is just as evident today . |
| 30 | I had thought that I was the only murderer in the family , but old Eric beat me to it , killing his mum before he had even drawn breath . |