Example sentences of "even his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his colour , beneath the darkness of his skin . |
| 2 | In fact it may be that Leeds are nt even his fave English side . |
| 3 | The policeman was grieving for his Scotch terrier , while the dragoman — a fellow with big , prominent eyes like a lobster 's — had proved singularly incompetent throughout the trip ; even his cooking had been a failure . |
| 4 | Even his home is pledged as security against the loans . |
| 5 | Presumably once the building had been a shepherd 's hut , even his home perhaps , but it was long derelict . |
| 6 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 7 | Never will he let a finance executive ( or even his boss under the influence of one ) impose a budget on him . |
| 8 | Even his voice was pleasingly human : |
| 9 | Even his voice changed a little . |
| 10 | Even his cat wo n't touch it now . |
| 11 | He was thirty-six years old , and his youth was gone , and even his prime was passing . |
| 12 | Even his marriage to Primaflora in some way had charmed them although , of course , there had been no opportunity for her to visit either Episkopi or Kouklia . |
| 13 | Even his marriage had made no difference . |
| 14 | During the years 303–305 Diocletian , convinced that the threat to the Empire was due to the presence of the Christians among the loyal followers , ordered outrageous purges : even his wife and daughter were killed . |
| 15 | Even his wife was surprised when she heard of her new guest in a telephone call from the airport . |
| 16 | As a rule he would wait for others — judges , opponents , even his wife — to decide matters of importance . |
| 17 | " The congaie is the house girl , the houseboy 's sister — or sometimes even his wife . |
| 18 | even his wife 's left him |
| 19 | Suggesting that life under Hitler was so bloody that even his deputy wanted to get out . |
| 20 | The guy with the hedgehog pullover — Jenkins — probably the worst of the lot , even his visor was obscured . |
| 21 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |
| 22 | In late October , after the Chancellor proposed certain tax increases , the FDP left the coalition and on 30 November , without their support , Erhard was forced to resign , his party divided , his foreign policy questioned , and even his reputation as an economic wizard tarnished . |
| 23 | In fact , his tone was level , and even his expression nowhere near as serious as she had imagined . |
| 24 | A counter-balance for Satan can not be found for Milton has gone too far in his wonderful description and characterisation so that even his portrayal of God can not even hope to rise to the same level . |
| 25 | She could have been his mother , for he was the son of John Symmys of that parish , or even his relict , for he himself must have been dead by 1525 , when the Ridlington lease was granted to the duke of Richmond . |
| 26 | Nobody , he once remarked , believed him when he said it was an attempt to create a world in which a language agreeable to his own private aesthetic might be made to seem real , and even his childhood seems to have been enlivened by inventing as well as learning remote languages . |
| 27 | Each time a worker ploughed a field his status and even his self-respect could be at stake . |
| 28 | Even his way of throwing his money about , what he has of it , is immediately distinguishable from Svidrigailov 's , while with both of them money is the very image of merely imputed and therefore reversible value in a loose-end world : ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like . ’ |
| 29 | Thiercelin and Epitot saluted smartly as he passed , but he did not see them , nor even his entourage . |
| 30 | He was shocked rigid ; even his breathing stopped . |