Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] even [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 And of course , from my own professional viewpoint , it is clear that even after a break of so many years , Miss Kenton would prove the perfect solution to the problem at present besetting us at Darlington Hall .
2 The cupboard smelled slightly of damp and even on a warm summer evening Ginny felt the prickle of goose pimples rising on her bare arms .
3 It 's perhaps typical that even with a track as self-consciously silly as ‘ Ebeneezer ’ , there has to be a message .
4 When models are constructed from such premisses , for example , there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency .
5 He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity .
6 Ricky was stripping the partridge leg with his teeth , very white and even except a front one chipped by a polo ball .
7 And dispensers full of candles , to be set when lit into iron trolleys — so many that even on a relatively deserted day when I was there , you could hear their crepitation .
8 You have to be fine-tuned and the notion of writing drunk or even with a hangover is not on , because you need every sense and more .
9 The more unkind observers have already wondered whether it looks rather two-faced or even like a pair of out of shape knickers .
10 I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature .
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