Example sentences of "[prep] even [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , you know , it 's too trivial , there 's too many important things , like why have n't you got the special offer on display , to even bother to tell why you 're not , why you 're not performing or if anything is n't going right . |
| 2 | I want to hear what you 've got to say now 'cos at the moment it 's hard enough listening to your gems to even contemplate buying what 's spouting out of your Arsenal . |
| 3 | I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’ |
| 4 | Jessica , when she arrived , was overwhelmed by too many things , lost in too many emotions , to even want to make love . |
| 5 | Now if I could just remind you of what 's happened at the Lyndford Haven er er , Synod , last March erm , the Financial Committee have suggested that we should go for a target of five hundred and ten thousand but er , this is we are not gon na be able to even start looking at the eleven and a half thousand if if er all the provinces do it for months and more and we , I think very bravely or foolishly whatever way you li , look at it , proposed that we should got to five hundred and forty thousand and it looks as thought we 're gon na end up certainly nearer to five ten than five forty . |
| 6 | Later , when I got to Bristol I was prescribed the vitamins and mineral supplements such a diet needed , but to even start to get used to it was a formidable struggle . |
| 7 | As a consequence , there is a reluctance to even devote thinking time to this subject . |
| 8 | Too weak to even avoid humbling himself in front of the Japanese . |
| 9 | Few former colleagues had much idea of what anthropology was and many seemed never to even have heard the word . |
| 10 | Karnstein was too repulsed to even try to answer . |
| 11 | Be sure to remember how poor lay reasoning about causation is : not to even try to collect the data required to test a hypothesis about the relationship between smoking and lung cancer would be to leave the doors open only to those who jump to conclusions on the basis of a sample of one . |
| 12 | It sounds to me illegal to even try to touch somebody 's future . ’ |
| 13 | Well now , taking taking into account the fact that there are about three hundred schools here in Oxfordshire and there 's only one school so far that has chosen to even try to opt out , and it was defeated at that school , then I see that is erm a comment on the kind of Education Authority we have here . |
| 14 | Yet it was late and when the hands of the grandfather clock in the kitchen pointed to eleven-thirty he cleared his throat unnecessarily noisily and said , ‘ I doubt if the weather 's going to clear up enough tonight for your dad to even try to get here . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't see why the sun has to rise and set in different places , ’ said Gurder , who refused to even try to understand basic astronomy . |
| 16 | He could n't move as Richmann passed out of his field of vision , not caring enough to even notice Carrefour any longer . |
| 17 | Many asked , is it the right time for the G M B to even consider merging with the T & g , particularly given the fact that over the past thirteen years the T & g has lost over fifty percent of their membership and now stands in great financial crisis . |
| 18 | From this kind of perspective on the road to socialism , to even consider reconstructing or reforming the British constitution is regarded as a trifling nonsense that borders on the evil of a naive reformism itself . |
| 19 | So Britain is poorly equipped to even consider making any comparisons of the productivity or usefulness of research . |
| 20 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 21 | There 's no need for James to even attempt to sing the chorus , the entire audience are as one shouting that word out to him . |
| 22 | In other words , people have settled into an environment where they live , and to even attempt to get to talk and get themselves out . |
| 23 | Apart from the problem of elderly or disabled people having to walk around parked cars into the middle of the road to even attempt signalling a bus , there remains the difficulty of boarding a bus away from the raised pavement . |
| 24 | Like it 's just so huge , it it kind of feels quite overwhelming to even begin to combat it ! |
| 25 | If you were admitted to hospital and your employers stopped paying your full salary , you could end up relying on Statutory Sick Pay and trying to manage on £52.10* per week — which may well not be enough to even begin to cover your household overheads . |