Example sentences of "even [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 're earning £60,000 a year and you ca n't even buy yourself a decent suit . " |
| 2 | Katherine had even bought herself a new dress for the occasion out of her own pocket money topped up with a little from the bank account into which her own presents went . |
| 3 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 4 | The Adjutant even permitted himself a rueful grin just as the office door itself opened and the CO strode in . |
| 5 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |