Example sentences of "[to-vb] even [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 2 | Peace and quiet are easy to find even in the height of the season , for the hotel is splendidly isolated , away from traffic and the merest hint of a crowd . |
| 3 | ‘ In prayer we are gradually hollowed out to become more ‘ capax Dei ’ ’ ( capacity for God ) , said Maria Boulding , and someone pastoring others will be only too aware of the need to receive even at the price of felt ( and often uncomfortable ) emptiness . |
| 4 | Added to these problems , their voices are too squeaky and high-pitched for the telephone operator to hear even after the Doctor 's crew have managed to lift a telephone receiver from its rest . |
| 5 | It was used to print religious texts in Cyrillic characters and was able to function even during the period of Turkish overlordship after 1499 , when Cetinje was incorporated into the sandžak of Skadar . |
| 6 | Many of the human victims clearly left their homes feeling full of optimism , carrying bags of gold , pieces of jewellery and other valued objects , which they refused to abandon even at the point of death . |
| 7 | This is excellent news for soaring in thermals and it appeared to be virtually impossible to stall even with the stick fully back in a really well-banked turn . |
| 8 | We are ( sadly ) used to antagonism from some anglers and landowners but when a leading conservation officer says ( as has been reported ) that the World Wild Fund for Nature 's contribution of around £40,000 would be well worth while if boats were kept off one mile of water , it is hard to swallow , especially when you bear in mind the relatively few miles of water which are available to use even with the protection of the Rights of Way Act ! |
| 9 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 10 | ( 122 ) Criminals have been known to jest even upon the scaffold . |
| 11 | Yet party leaders did not want direct control , in case TANU was banned : they wanted the paper to be able to continue even in the event of this happening . |
| 12 | As we may have to wait even until the summer , tempers may get a little tetchy , as last night 's closing session proved . |
| 13 | Furthermore , if the originating process is served late , the court may allow the hearing or pre-trial review to proceed even in the defendant 's absence , or it may adjourn the hearing ( Ord 7 , r 16 ) . |
| 14 | It was only a matter of months before she was forced to withdraw even with the support of Alfonso ( who now that the Cid was dead finally recognized the worth of his finest knight ) . |
| 15 | You 'll have to stay even through the night , if necessary . |
| 16 | Second condition was , the willingness to redeem even to the point of sacrifice . |
| 17 | Then the willingness to redeem even to the point of sacrifice . |
| 18 | Membership of the Holiday Fellowship continued to rise even through the war years , and by 1919 the total numbered 5,241 guest weeks . |
| 19 | In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 . |
| 20 | Another model allows for partisan effects to occur even in the presence of rational expectations . |