Example sentences of "even [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean you , you even get interest just , if you 've only a bit in at least ten have n't ya ? |
| 32 | ‘ The letters we get are usually very friendly ; sometimes I even get birthday cards from listeners who have never met me , ’ said Mr Edmond Sehayek , director of the Arabic service , an Iraqi Jew who emigrated to Israel in 1963 . |
| 33 | Legislation has been used to thwart library censorship ( as in the News International dispute ) , and legislation has been implemented which as a consequence may encourage and even legitimize library censorship ( as with Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 ) . |
| 34 | Hyper-transfusion or even exchange transfusion with normal blood can lower the proportion of HbS sufficiently to greatly reduce the incidence of sickling crises , but this is most useful as a short-term measure , for example in pregnancy or as prophylaxis before and during major surgery . |
| 35 | But whatever the degree of manipulation involved in specific instances , it is clearly possible in principle for genuine popular consent and active support to be given to a dictatorship or to an authoritarian regime , or to specific measures intended to restrict or even destroy democracy . |
| 36 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 37 | It enables a voice to be given to interest groups which ought to be heard and , possibly , even exercise influence but which otherwise would lack a sufficient say in the affairs of the nation . |
| 38 | The professors are of an inferior order , and very few of the students even approach mediocrity . ’ |
| 39 | Does the Bible condone or even promote slavery ? |
| 40 | Many even demand proof of age . |
| 41 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 42 | It is a measure of his success in launching this new functional approach that we now take it so much for granted that we forget , and even find difficulty in appreciating , the novelty which it represented at the time . |
| 43 | At that time , one could enter the building easily , wander up and down the racked and discoloured ramp , contemplate the looting of one of the door handles , even find undrunk wine in a cupboard . |
| 44 | ‘ In fact , ’ she delivered the shaft of a sweet smile , ‘ I wonder you even find time to eat . ’ |
| 45 | Its importance as a late Saxon estate centre was probably the result of it being an equally important Roman and even Iron Age estate . |
| 46 | Lester Lefton and Laura Valvatne even use psychology to help the student with pep paragraphs about being motivated and a stream of ‘ progress checks ’ and ‘ selftests ’ so that students can monitor their mastery . |
| 47 | The guidance states staff can now bar the exit of the home to stop residents leaving , and even use force to overpower them . |
| 48 | There are born-again Christians at large in every field of music , even thrash metal , but disco and evangelical God bothering seem to go together like hassocks and cassocks . |
| 49 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 50 | The unwanted jongleurs even proffer tourist information : apparently if we disembark at Oxford Street we 'll be in one of the finest shopping centres in the world , so why do n't we ‘ all fuck off there and buy yer wives a mink ? |
| 51 | On the other hand the dairying areas — Cumbria , Derbyshire , Powys and South Wales — had a more even labour requirement . |
| 52 | Bear in mind however , that a little of the sun 's powerful energy is good , but too much can result in premature ageing — or even skin cancer . |
| 53 | The fantasy in ‘ Margaret on the Guillotine ’ is more like wishful thinking , than the resolve to do violence , or even personify violence theatrically . |
| 54 | It is increasingly difficult for the relatives of the elderly sick to obtain even respite care in many hospitals when they themselves need a rest . |
| 55 | You even play chess quite well . |
| 56 | It 's a bit they , I mean these people they even do interest free credit |
| 57 | The ban takes the form of a circular stating that it is illegal to sell , purchase , import , export or even carry tiger bones or rhino horns and that they may not be used in medicines . |
| 58 | It follows also that it is not credit-broking merely to advertise credit facilities or even carry application forms . |
| 59 | Sometimes they even cast doubt on psychology 's concept of a logical , autonomous subject , as Chapter 7 describes . |
| 60 | I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience . |