Example sentences of "even if [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 2 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 3 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 4 | In the church , the blacks have no hymnbooks , and we are told that even if they had them they probably could not read them , showing that the blacks are oppressed and have no opportunity of an education . |
| 5 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 6 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 7 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 8 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 9 | She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world . |
| 10 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 11 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 12 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 13 | Even if they get me , I 'll go down fighting . ’ |
| 14 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 15 | Even if they say we want you to open Sundays now , I shall say no . |
| 16 | Even if they say it 's out |
| 17 | Even if they send me out , I will return . |
| 18 | I do n't think they can take any more , you know they 've left nothing there , but now the allies — I do n't think there is much , and even if they have they call them surgical , you know , sight bombing |
| 19 | I always write my friends ' books into my Harrods list , even if they give me a copy , and then I keep it out quite a time so that other people ca n't have it . |
| 20 | I sha n't take it if it 's something I do n't like you know even if they give it free . |
| 21 | Caroline says midwives do n't like to be bossy , and resist ‘ ordering ’ a woman to rest even if they feel she should . |
| 22 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 23 | It made him feel powerful , that was it , because he paid , he bought and , even if they hated him , they sold . |
| 24 | She was going to hit him , even if they threw her in jail again . |
| 25 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 26 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 27 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 28 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 29 | Even if they think we 're mice . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if they think it 's a piece of trash ’ , said one dealer who begged not to be identified , ‘ they 'll all be too afraid to say it ’ . |