Example sentences of "[verb] not even [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 2 | The reform program has not even raised the subject of the ultimate right of the party to control society . |
| 3 | Moreover , there is the likelihood that the experimenter has not even considered the possibility of such unintended effects on his subjects ' responses . ’ |
| 4 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 5 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 6 | Senior officers did not even visit the ground before approving the ground control plan , and the club was criticised for lack of rescue and medical equipment , and inadequate signposting to steer any latecomers away from full terraces . |
| 7 | On her return , Ashraf reported directly to her brother and did not even send the foreign minister a copy of her conclusions . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Federal Government did not even consult the bank before making its announcement on GMU . |
| 9 | She did not even mention the military involvement in the rebellion or the officer widely believed to have led it , the cashiered Colonel Gregorio Honasan . |
| 10 | Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Brandon of Oakbrook and Lord Templeman did not even mention the section . |
| 11 | I was disappointed that in his opening speech the Foreign Secretary did not even mention the horrific growth in racial attacks and neo-Nazi bands that are now rampaging around the eastern part of what is now the unified Germany . |
| 12 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 13 | They did not even leave the building . |
| 14 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 15 | On this occasion she did not even pronounce the name ‘ Vietnam ’ . |
| 16 | Chief Insp Copeman admitted the police did not even known the cause of the accident . |
| 17 | Quite apart from the intellectual and educational differences , they did not even share the same hobbies . |
| 18 | Corbett said the ‘ Miserere ’ and ‘ Requiem ’ realising he did not even know the man 's name . |
| 19 | Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews . |
| 20 | And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much . |
| 21 | He despised the rural ignoramuses who did not even know the system . |
| 22 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 23 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 24 | President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali did not even attend the Arab League summit in Cairo , claiming that not enough preparation had gone into the meeting . |
| 25 | Savouring the sweet taste of his victory , he did not even acknowledge the Controller 's presence by so much as a glance in his direction . |
| 26 | The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing . |
| 27 | Most of their working-class contemporaries , of course , did not even have the opportunity . |
| 28 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 29 | Unlike the natural sciences , in a liberal society the social ones did not even have the stimulus of technological progress . |
| 30 | They did not even approach the matter . |