Example sentences of "[vb past] even [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was so nice that it seemed even the enemy had forgotten us . |
| 2 | ‘ I said nothing from myself , but I prayed , and then said whatever God gave me the confidence to say … when the need arose , God opened even the ass 's mouth ’ . |
| 3 | But she cherished even the pain that Mark caused her . |
| 4 | They 'd cry their eyes out if they heard even a whisper of this silly talk . ’ |
| 5 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |
| 6 | From there they would flow outwards to the masses through all state agencies , which by the 1930s included even the family . |
| 7 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 8 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 9 | Good League results led even the club 's sternest critic to believe that in Vic Noodle we had found the man to take us into the Football League . |
| 10 | His father could hardly complain ; not far away in Manchester at that period only 43% of the children of the working-class reached even the age of five . |
| 11 | She risked standing , poised to duck back under the slab of rock if she saw even the shadow of a movement . |
| 12 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 13 | They had given the boy the surname Ward , not because it was his name — few of the boys emerging from the Clay possessed even the concept of a family name — but because all those who graduated from the Project bore that name . |
| 14 | But the insects have , in another way , transcended even the limitation of scale . |
| 15 | Defences were feverishly reinforced , and unremitting artillery fire forced even the Crown Prince to admit that ‘ our preparations for the attack were considerably interrupted ’ . |
| 16 | But surprisingly perhaps , it was not the major influence on David Steel 's image ; and David Owen 's image was influenced more by Labour partisanship than by Alliance partisanship : the hostility of Labour partisans towards Owen exceeded even the affection of Alliance partisans for him ( Table 8.3 ) . |
| 17 | This reflects the almost total concern with American abolitionism of some reformers as well as a liberalism about religious matters which regretted even the refusal to allow the unbeliever Joseph Barker to speak at the earlier Manchester conference . |
| 18 | He said even the chairperson of the Tory-controlled ACC had described the government 's attitude as obnoxious . |
| 19 | Others , like Hayling , obviously had talent , but none of them had even a fraction of the experience or ability which had twice earned him the Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 20 | And now she no longer had even the conviction of her rightness to sustain her . |
| 21 | Despite being an ignoramus , the dealer who lasted even a matter of weeks would have a certain animal intelligence , as well as the true smooth operator 's knack of twisting information to support the argument his firm insisted he presented . |
| 22 | He missed even the sight of them acutely . |