Example sentences of "even [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
| 2 | If you 've ever used one of their guides , you know that even with their excellent directions you can spend half a lifetime driving round vast industrial estates . |
| 3 | She looked across at Dr Neil ; the overhead light was making a golden aureole around his sandy head , and she thought again that even with his dreadful scar he was an extremely attractive man . |
| 4 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
| 5 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 6 | Even before its last twitch they sprang forward , securing the room . |
| 7 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 8 | But even in her bemused state she heard , with fierce satisfaction , the harshness , the rapid breathing that belied his attempt to sound unmoved . |
| 9 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 10 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |
| 11 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 12 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 13 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 14 | ‘ Pat would never like to be regarded as special but even in his critical condition he was still in fighting spirit . ’ |
| 15 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 16 | By now he had come to symbolize the Montparnasse adventure , and even in his worst moments he had a glamour about him , a sense of intensity , that excited envy and admiration . |
| 17 | You 've got nothing that would even attract a body-starved sailor ; even in your young days you were really nothing . |
| 18 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 19 | The fact that even on our own planet we have creatures — the dolphins and whales — whose intelligence is at the very least comparable with our own makes little impact on people who deny the possible existence of intelligent life on other worlds . |
| 20 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 21 | I think I 'm very nice , but even on my best days I never look at myself like that . |
| 22 | Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner , and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him . |
| 23 | She 'd meant her tone to be clipped and dismissive , but even to her own ears it sounded slurred and indistinct as she made a mental attempt to regain conscious control over the increased rhythm of her heart . |
| 24 | The 44-year-old Prince lamented the generation gap but joked that ‘ even at my advanced age I can make a muddle ’ . |