Example sentences of "even [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could even cover a cone with macramé for a really exciting special flower holder . |
| 2 | Some people may even prefer the option of suicide or euthanasia , as such changes simply represent an unacceptable degree of compromise over how they wish to live . |
| 3 | You can even track the course of paper through your printer , thanks to an animated picture on-screen . |
| 4 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |
| 5 | By catching herself saying ‘ You stupid woman , ca n't you even pour a cup of tea without spilling it ? ’ and instead thinking , ‘ OK , Alison , you seem a bit shaky today . |
| 6 | You can even do a bit of water-skiing if you fancy it . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe she would even smell a whiff of perfume . |
| 8 | And who knows , it may even bring a touch of glamour to the streets of Harlesden . |
| 9 | Nor , it seemed , did they even suspect the existence of Station X. After all , Bletchley was an important railway junction , and the lines gleaming in the moonlight could have been an aid to enemy reconnaissance planes and bombers . |
| 10 | I did n't even touch the tube of Rescue Remedy on the desk before me . |
| 11 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 12 | Hoover could n't even see the point of intelligence reports which showed Japan 's interest in how to attack a deep harbour , and how deep Pearl Harbour might be . |
| 13 | Indeed , she could not even remember the day in question or her request for a baby to play with . |
| 14 | Profits from the sales of patches or chewing gum might even provide a source of income , which could fund an antismoking counsellor . |
| 15 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 16 | One may even detect a waning of attention to Roman peculiarities . |
| 17 | We would even detect the variation in mains electricity , which has a frequency of 50 hertz . |
| 18 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 19 | We shared the beans out among the sick and the Poor from our canton , who did n't even have a plot of land of their own . |
| 20 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 21 | They do n't even have the excuse of poverty for their addiction . ’ |
| 22 | The blacks do n't — they do n't even have an illusion of power . |
| 23 | A developer could go ahead without applying for planning permission , or could even ignore a refusal of permission . |
| 24 | In four years on French soil they did not even acquire a liking for wine . |
| 25 | Do me a favour , Webley could n't even pass a mug of tea across the counter last season , let alone pass a ball . |
| 26 | Give us a job , she said , he wo n't even pass the time of day with us . |
| 27 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 28 | They supposedly could even live a while in space without life support . |
| 29 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 30 | In reply , we would point out that , before we can even raise the question of correlation between linguistic expressions and extra-linguistic phenomena , we have to know what the linguistic expressions are , and for speakers and hearers ( even if not for strict behaviourists ) this means understanding them . |