Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] even [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's all we do we do n't even sell cake decorations or equipment . |
| 2 | Patients in psychiatric and mental handicap hospitals were frequently cared for by " nurses ' who had no training , some of whom did not even speak English . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 4 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 5 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 6 | Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents . |
| 7 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 8 | The son did not even get chance to finish his prepared speech . |
| 9 | ‘ He did not even know Millet was absent . |
| 10 | As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’ |
| 11 | As he points out , 18th-century Britons did not even define violence in our terms . |
| 12 | The diabetic clinic of those days did not even have blood glucose results available when patients were seen : now most clinics enjoy this advance . |
| 13 | He was bigger than I and he grabbed me by my Sidcot collar and hauled me in the direction of the CFI 's office , I did not even have time to shake off my parachute before we burst into the " Holiest of Holies " . |
| 14 | Home Office reports on football-ground safety in 1924 did not even raise hooliganism as an item on the agenda . |
| 15 | The bastard did not even look evil . |
| 16 | ‘ I am numb , I do not even feel anger towards whoever did it . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , newspaper editors sometimes do not even exercise control over large sections of their newspapers . |
| 18 | The Argyll Street entrance was full of real beggars , the kind that do not even have mouth organs . |
| 19 | I did n't even eat tea nothing because by the time hoovered and they were away . |
| 20 | This is interesting since Peavey did n't even start business until 1965 ; Hartley was just a kid in 1957 . |
| 21 | Last night they went to a back-street sauna , chatted politely , stripped , had sex with complete stranger , got dressed , went home , and did n't even trade phone numbers . |
| 22 | She knew that he did n't even like whisky . |
| 23 | She did n't even dare look for her , let alone make contact , but at least Chesarynth was as safe as Jezrael could make her . |
| 24 | ‘ She did n't even look human . ’ |
| 25 | And now they did n't even have TV . |
| 26 | It was so quick he did n't even have time to scream . |
| 27 | I did n't even have time to say hello before he was telling the whole room about us breaking into Puddephat 's rooms . |
| 28 | I did n't even have time for a proper supper . ’ |
| 29 | They did n't even have network , where grandma and grandpa lived . |
| 30 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |