Example sentences of "[adv] even as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 2 | That 's , that 's right , it 's being updated now even as we speak . |
| 3 | Then even as I was grinding its neck into the gravel it was trying to peck my heel . |
| 4 | She struggled to preserve detachment , yet even as her mind appeared to perform its duty , covering page after page with swiftly written words , elsewhere it found ever more disturbing ways to misbehave . |
| 5 | Its clamourings against solitude were a constant distraction from the cooler processes of thought ; yet even as her spirit chafed at this conflict between body and mind , Louisa understood that such stress was specific to her task and not to be avoided . |
| 6 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 7 | Yet even as she felt humiliated on his behalf she recognized that she too had been drawn into complicity with Emilia 's will . |
| 8 | Willingly she would have surrendered the gift of consciousness if only she might drift like these in a blind passion of being , exempt from question ; yet even as she yearned wistfully so , another voice inside her agitated mind was whispering the old caveat from the Rosarium : that all error arose from failure to begin with the proper substance , from a proud forgetfulness that the magisterium is Nature 's work and not the worker 's . |
| 9 | Yet even as she spoke she knew that her grandmother would not fall asleep , not tonight she would n't . |
| 10 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
| 11 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 12 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 13 | So well had her work progressed at the Lodge , and so greatly — for all the discomfort — had she enjoyed her solitude , that Louisa momentarily tried defiance ; but she was shivering uncontrollably even as she did so . |