Example sentences of "even [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 2 | Even through the streaky visor she could see that he had the most mesmerising eyes — laughing eyes — laughing at her . |
| 3 | Even with the simple approach it was important to run acoustic tests in the hall beforehand . |
| 4 | She 'd sniffle and nestle closer and even with the peculiar haircut I 'd know she was n't any boy . |
| 5 | In winter it 's a wildlife haven ; even in the harshest weather it affords a rarely failing food source . |
| 6 | Even in the little time she had had since yesterday ( and she had sent out at once for gossip papers . |
| 7 | Even in the dim light she could see the blood . |
| 8 | Even in the dim light he could see that the face was cyanosed , deeply discoloured , and there were reddish spots or petechiae in the region of the eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 10 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 11 | Even in the fading light it impressed her , if only because it was worse even than she had imagined — or Lionel had said . |
| 12 | It was a minor treasure , a thing of gold wire and seed pearls , and even in the damp darkness it glittered . |
| 13 | Even in the heavy rain she had to be out in clean air , running among the trees , anywhere other than inside the hot chamber of her skull . |
| 14 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 15 | Louise had gone back to Nîmes now but she had left Sally the white dress as a parting gift and even without the waspie-waisted basque it was by far the nicest thing Sally owned . |
| 16 | Even on the brightest day it 's erm it 's , it , it 's very grey and very very bleak . |
| 17 | There may be no crust on the far side , and even on the near side it may be confined to certain regions , such as beneath the maria , though the majority view is that the Moon does have a global crust . |
| 18 | Try as they might , those advertisers are always beaten down by the form ; they are forced — even at the one time they need to be candidly personal — into an unwished impersonality . |
| 19 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 20 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |