Example sentences of "[coord] even [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At many moments of weakness , or love , Thomas had spent far more money than he could afford or even wished for the sake of Simon 's joy in the holidays . |
| 2 | Even if a relatively highly geared mortgage can be obtained , the cost of indemnity insurance on such mortgages has doubled or even tripled since the boom . |
| 3 | This consideration was never advanced or even pondered by the opponents of the agreement . |
| 4 | This was not uncommon in some mining districts and even existed in the craft trade of hat making , the artisans who took in their wives to pick the coarse hairs from their material saving the 6 to 9s ( 30-45p ) a week which they would otherwise have had to pay from their wage . |
| 5 | Moving still further inland , she dispensed with the trappings of the colonial lifestyle — she drank unboiled water , used no mosquito-net , walked barefoot , and even went without the indispensable hat . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to get help , and even went to the police , telling them he was taking and selling heroin . |
| 7 | For various reasons including the growth of the elderly population , the fall in the birth rate , the increase in the number of young adults and the rising divorce rate , the long-term trend towards smaller average household size has continued and even accelerated over the past two decades . |
| 8 | It is brought out clearly , and even contrasted with the Hebrew view , in the Epistle to the Hebrews , 9 : 25–6 : ‘ Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world ; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . ’ |
| 9 | Joseph visited Lapwai with increasing frequency , and even participated in the old-time procession of warriors at the raucous 4th July celebrations . |
| 10 | They hovered over the playing fields and even sat on the goal posts . |