Example sentences of "not even [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What , have I to strip myself before you 'll cry enough ? ’ said the deliberate , amused voice , not even blown after all this tussling . |
| 2 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 3 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 4 | We would not even pass for distant cousins let alone members of the same nuclear family unit . |
| 5 | ‘ These men , ’ said a teacher , ‘ do not even speak in Castilian , but in slang ; sometimes they do n't even know how to write , and can hardly read . |
| 6 | Ultimately it could censure the Commission and so dismiss the whole body , but such an action was so extreme that its use was not even threatened until 1972 . |
| 7 | But I 've been surprised over the last erm few years of all these young men erm who have restored this museum who , although were not even born in those years , have taken a tremendous interest in what went on and erm well their results , some of their results you can see here today . |
| 8 | Most of those who shouted ‘ Long live Dubcek ’ were not even born in 1968 . |
| 9 | Most of those who shouted ‘ Long live Dubcek ’ were not even born in 1968 . |
| 10 | A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs . |
| 11 | But the argument would not even stop at that point . |
| 12 | It will not even compete with ordinary propeller-driven ships — let alone hydrofoils or hovercraft that skim the surface at 40 knots or more . |
| 13 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 14 | He had maintained that ‘ some of these bases do not even answer to strategic necessities in connection with the possibility of a world war , but simply serve for the imperialist domination of the peoples concerned , the subjection of nations and the combating of movements of national liberation ’ . |
| 15 | Of course , this is quite unfair , and the case probably does not even rest on that passage in your report . |
| 16 | The University of Reading 's survey comments that most small farmers ‘ could not even subsist on these farms if they did not have outside sources of income . |
| 17 | They are not even issued with little gold stars to wear . |
| 18 | So basically they 've broken their contract with me and he 's not even responded to that letter . |
| 19 | Those whose husbands are earning will not even qualify for supplementary benefit . |
| 20 | Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’ |
| 21 | A few years ago it was not even included in some school Easter holidays . |
| 22 | They were not even deterred by some afternoon rain but carried on enjoying themselves kitted out in colourful Mickey Mouse ponchos . |
| 23 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 24 | Too often , however , producers have not even got to first base , because the requirements for evolving strong scripts have been so poorly understood . |
| 25 | Yeah , so , so what happens then if they say I 'm not even going to that interview then because I could n't live on it , even with all the other benefits , what happens then ? |
| 26 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters ' Union , they argue , did not even approve of Luddite actions . |
| 27 | The official report of a government investigation into the fire was not even published in full until 1988 . |
| 28 | It would not even occur to most businessmen that the criteria the Revenue employs can be more favourable than those the DSS uses . |
| 29 | I do n't even care for harmless , comic coincidences . |
| 30 | Well , she could n't even complain about that — he 'd been upfront about his intentions , had never pretended to feel anything he did n't . |