Example sentences of "[adv] even [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just have a quick slosh , well hardly even needs a slosh round does it ? |
| 2 | ‘ A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man ’ , wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson , Max Ernst , Dali or most chillingly of all , Hans Bellmer , the female form appears distorted , dissected , feathered , bound and strapped to machines , she rarely even wears a face . |
| 3 | And in educational administration textbooks , of course , written for potential ( male ? ) managers of schools , gender barely even gets a mention in the index ( Davies 1985b ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he 's usually doing thirty mile an hour by the time he hits the blackberry hedge at the bottom of the pitch , never even gets a scratch as a rule . |
| 5 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |