Example sentences of "and even [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Moving still further inland , she dispensed with the trappings of the colonial lifestyle — she drank unboiled water , used no mosquito-net , walked barefoot , and even went without the indispensable hat . |
2 | The new chairman upset visiting speakers by introducing them incorrectly ; he ‘ picked his nose and wore jumpers with holes and even wrote to a local newspaper saying that new members should be on s ; weeks probation , and if they missed a meeting they should be expelled ’ . |
3 | For various reasons including the growth of the elderly population , the fall in the birth rate , the increase in the number of young adults and the rising divorce rate , the long-term trend towards smaller average household size has continued and even accelerated over the past two decades . |
4 | It is brought out clearly , and even contrasted with the Hebrew view , in the Epistle to the Hebrews , 9 : 25–6 : ‘ Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world ; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . ’ |
5 | Joseph visited Lapwai with increasing frequency , and even participated in the old-time procession of warriors at the raucous 4th July celebrations . |