Example sentences of "[adv] even [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so even to get them there |
| 2 | She 'd goaded him into doing what he 'd done , perhaps even hoping he would take her against her will , she realised in despair . |
| 3 | Two indeed were peers , one the Lord Belasyse with whom Willys again quarrelled fiercely , perhaps even sending him a second challenge . |
| 4 | It is possible that Mr Brooke , or a successor , may begin to think in terms of reducing the UDR 's role and size , and perhaps even phasing it out . |
| 5 | I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette . |
| 6 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | they could lock up the landlords er and perhaps even banish them . |
| 8 | Yet — and here again the comparison with Venice seems particularly appropriate — there is evidence that in recent times those foundations of society have begun to crumble and decay so that , just like the Serenissima , society today faces ever higher spring tides of modernity which threaten to overwhelm the traditional basis of the social order , perhaps even to destroy it altogether . |
| 9 | The daunting difficulty is underlined again by one of our front pages of last week : there were people from IBM 's labs discussing this holographic polymer they had developed , which promised unimaginably high capacity and low cost data storage : right , well if that 's coming along , there 's not much point in putting much more investment into rotating magnetic memory systems — disks to you and me , DASD to IBMers — is there : better put AdStar onto a care-and-maintenance basis , perhaps even sell it . |
| 10 | He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them . |
| 11 | Maybe you 'd like to take a turn along there , perhaps even identify it . |
| 12 | And anyway , it could also be argued that it is the accounting system which is allowing this manipulation ( perhaps even inducing it ) and therefore the accounting system should be modified to prevent it . |
| 13 | Any territories that rallied to Free France would enhance the legitimacy of his movement , provide strategic bases for his forces , and perhaps even give him the opportunity to transfer his headquarters to a base on French soil . |
| 14 | But we hope that these impressions will at least bring some encouragement to the many friends we made who are working there , and that they may perhaps even help them by opening their eyes to some new possibilities based on experience elsewhere . |
| 15 | Some wills assumed this as an inexcludable entitlement and did not even mention it . |
| 16 | It was as if he did not even feel it , for there was no response . |
| 17 | was that he might look straight at her and not even know her . |
| 18 | Or worse , not even noticed me ? |
| 19 | He had probably not even noticed her , a tall , rather too thin woman of thirty odd , with dark auburn hair . |
| 20 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 21 | I understand you did not even pay her for her work . |
| 22 | For a start , Ukraine does not even control them . |
| 23 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 24 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |
| 25 | The calf was sold long ago , and she would not even recognize it now if it ambled into the yard . |
| 26 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 27 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 28 | You 've not even made him a potful . |
| 29 | It does not even oblige us to assert that nothing but classics , or philosophy , or mathematics , or PPE is education . |
| 30 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |