Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not even [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 2 | In the end I did n't even walk to Cambridge , but went ignominiously by bus from Royston , where we stopped for lunch . |
| 3 | I saw her briefly , and , I did n't even speak to her other than to say hello . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't even want to be at the presentation . |
| 5 | I say , if it was midnight Joey went round with that , I did n't even have to . |
| 6 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 7 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 8 | But she could n't draw back now ; she did n't even want to . |
| 9 | And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . |
| 10 | ‘ They did n't even speak to me , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Had they all in fact something to escape from , perhaps something they did n't even acknowledge to themselves ? |
| 12 | They did n't even need to be shown how high you could climb , how bravely you could wrestle . |
| 13 | The idea that she might be able to leave with him did n't even occur to her . |
| 14 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 15 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 16 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 17 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 18 | But she loved him , and that made it a bargain — and he did n't even deserve to be loved . |
| 19 | He did n't even want to be with the harem . ’ |
| 20 | He did n't even seem to be listening to her . |
| 21 | He did n't even seem to be aware that a chill north wind was blowing . |
| 22 | Well I did n't even , well he did n't even occur to me actually I must admit . |
| 23 | I mean the old man was well in his seventies and he , he was secondary , you see he never even er , he , he did n't even come to the funeral , Clifford 's funeral and Margaret was very bitter about that . |
| 24 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 25 | Erm and the erm I saw John at lunchtime and I mentioned it to him because he , he said that , it had n't even occurred to me till then , because he said I 'm concentrating on the surveying side and I thought ha ha ha to you my friend . |