Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] even [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 2 | The harbour was crowded with boats berthed two and three abreast but the market sheds were empty , sluiced down so that not even a small of fish remained . |
| 3 | This is something that not even a Washoe or Lucy , far less a baby calf , begins to approach . |
| 4 | Why trim the grass so short that not even a goat could get its incisors into the chlorophyl ? |
| 5 | So that not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground unnoticed by Him ’ . |
| 6 | The workload is considered such that not even the appointment of a number of additional limited case judges has made much of a dent in it . |
| 7 | Some of these , such as gill and skin flukes , can be medicated , but there are others that not even the world 's greatest pessimist would credit . |
| 8 | After a brief goodnight and not even a peck on the cheek he looked down , then said , ‘ I 'll be in touch some time , Sarella . ’ |
| 9 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 10 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 11 | The Flag Cichlid is Mesonauta insignis , but the American Flag fish is quite different , and not even a Cichlid . |
| 12 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 14 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |
| 15 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
| 16 | No reply and not even a hint of a smile . |
| 17 | There was complete silence and not even a breath of wind disturbed the peace . |
| 18 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 19 | And not even an air raid warning to send them into the cellars . |
| 20 | The losses at the Battle of Sagrajas had been great and not even the addition of El Cid 's men could make it anything like as strong as it had been before the coming of Yusuf . |
| 21 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |
| 22 | We had to stand in the pissing down rain , with the cockney scum , and whats more I could only see one goal , and not even the goal that we scored in . |
| 23 | The silence of the night brought a feeling of unease ; the normal rustlings of nocturnal creatures were absent and not even the hoot of an owl nor the choughing call of a pheasant disturbed the stillness . |
| 24 | One is in the Delta ; the other is in Heliopolis , now a suburb of Cairo , but not even a cynic could believe the world began in the suburbs . |
| 25 | But not even a whisper came from the room . |
| 26 | Lineker spared their blushes this time , but not even the striker acclaimed by Francis as Europe 's best ( Gullit may sue ) can oblige every week if the requirement is two goals for a draw , three for a win . |
| 27 | But not even the contagion of disgrace had touched him through his king 's disastrous venture ; for he was in the north , far away from this débâcle . |
| 28 | But not even the prospect of experimenting with cooking samphire raised a sense of oppression that evening ; such conversations as were half-heartedly begun petered out . |
| 29 | But not even the acknowledgement of that could make the pain of losing him go away . |
| 30 | THE unfamiliar sound of a Scottish Dance Band was heard echoing throughout Drummond House , Edinburgh but not even the security guards looked surprised . |