Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [not/n't] even [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | But if they wo n't talk — or perhaps do n't even know precisely what goes on — we 've shown our hand , and got no tricks . |
2 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
3 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
4 | They paid the Greeks to teach them their wisdom and often did not even have to pay because they were their slaves . |
5 | Presumably not the minor detail that young Anne was a designing little minx who married Henry in cold blood to further her own ambitions — and then did n't even have the sense or decency to stand by her bargain . ’ |
6 | Unlike a scoria cone though , a pumice cone is usually rather low and poorly defined , and sometimes does not even have a recognizable crater . |