Example sentences of "[coord] even [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 2 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 3 | US officials said this did amount to a description of a rouble gold standard , but emphasised that Mr Baker was not prescribing or even recommending policy to Moscow . |
| 4 | Hyper-transfusion or even exchange transfusion with normal blood can lower the proportion of HbS sufficiently to greatly reduce the incidence of sickling crises , but this is most useful as a short-term measure , for example in pregnancy or as prophylaxis before and during major surgery . |
| 5 | Be careful , too , about leaving appliances on when you 're about to go out , or even using Economy 7 overnight . |
| 6 | Instead , resources could be used to limit known abuses or even to facilitate redress when abuses take place . |
| 7 | Although the reduced percentage of aneuploid tumours can be interpreted as a local response to radiotherapy the missing effect on survival points to the fact that oesophageal cancer is often diagnosed at a locally advanced or even disseminated stage . |
| 8 | He can not quite detach himself or even avoid nerves ; he has to be eternally in readiness ; only when the final curtain has fallen can he be sure he will not have to go on . |
| 9 | They may experience visions , seeing , hearing or even smelling things that others ca n't ( hallucinations ) . |
| 10 | What gets me though , is the number of man U fans who 'll whine about it and yet sing Hillsbrough disaster stuff at Scouse fans , or even put jokes in Red Issue about Don Revie 's motor neurone disease . |
| 11 | ‘ I joined Amnesty in 1968 when there were n't any teams or even research regions . |
| 12 | Offcuts of plastic drainpipe or pipes of larger diameters can be cut as shown to make plant pot hangers for the fence or trellis , or even to maximise space in the greenhouse or conservatory . |
| 13 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
| 14 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 15 | It would also be an offence to publish , buy or even hold material such as the tapes concerning the Princess of Wales and Prince Charles . |
| 16 | Of course , in theory , the mirror image rule makes printed forms matter since it encourages or even forces parties receiving documents to read them carefully . |
| 17 | Breaches or bursts on embankments can be caused by tree roots or even burrowing animals like moles and water rats . |
| 18 | Let me repeat yet again the words of Ernest Renan in his famous lecture ‘ What is a Nation ’ in 1882 : ‘ Forgetting history , or even getting history wrong ( l'erreur historique ) are an essential factor in the formation of a nation , which is why the progress of historical studies is often dangerous to a nationality . ’ |
| 19 | On the other hand , to describe a person as a " friend " , or a " colleague " , or a " cousin " , etc. is implicitly to presuppose the existence of non-relational features of some kind or other , physical and/or non-physical characteristics , actions , attitudes , etc. , without which such descriptions would not be applicable , or even make sense . |
| 20 | ‘ To disable at least one , Sir — or even make use of it ? ’ |
| 21 | In order to achieve the first objective the drafter will seek to define his/her client 's obligations , restrict the circumstances in which the client will be in breach of contract , and restrict , limit or even exclude liabilities which would otherwise otherwise . |
| 22 | The dominant sectors of society found no difficulty in tolerating or even nodding approval of its message , a development which reached its apogee when the 1988 Conference of the British Conservative Party bellowed out the song with no hint of embarrassment . |
| 23 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |
| 24 | The distinction between diaries , memoirs and autobiographies is not easy to make since one form of record can shade into the other or even contain parts of another . |
| 25 | A new Pax Europa or even Pax Japanica is difficult to envisage for all sorts of historical and geopolitical reasons . |
| 26 | A more serious level is exchanging facts , ideas and opinions , intellectual concepts or even discussing doctrine . |
| 27 | A centralized revolutionary organization , created and directed by the intelligentsia , might ‘ run ahead ’ of the peasantry , or even develop ambitions contrary to those of the masses and subject them to a new form of oppression . |
| 28 | Felicity could not easily attend the lunch as her status was indeterminate ; and she had no wish ‘ to break bread , or even to take wine ’ with the Party 's local professionals . |
| 29 | The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away . |
| 30 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |