Example sentences of "even if [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 2 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 3 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 4 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 5 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 6 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 7 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 8 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 9 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 10 | Sandy said , ‘ We 'd better not be heading for your place , even if you 've been doing it up . |
| 11 | ‘ I know a lady lawyer who can get you off , even if you 've been going round the shops buying poison , ’ he said . |
| 12 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 13 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 14 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 15 | Even if she had been asking me to make love to her — which she was n't — the answer would very definitely have been no . |
| 16 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |