Example sentences of "not even [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am numb , I do not even feel anger towards whoever did it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 3 | Before and after , within a phenomenological time , separate experiences , not ontological objects , and they do not even separate experiences by number alone . |
| 4 | In the fourteenth century even judges had been remarkably ignorant of the statutes which they had to enforce ; lawcourts sometimes did not even possess copies of particular acts ; and the copies which did exist were marred by gross errors . |
| 5 | I could not even give instructions to a painter . |
| 6 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 7 | Worse still , it may not even make sense to the target reader . |
| 8 | Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents . |
| 9 | But on this showing they will not even beat Poland at Wembley in September , let alone collect the minimum draw in Rotterdam that they will need to come back here in 12 months . |
| 10 | Unless they pick themselves up quickly , England will not even beat Poland at Wembley in September , let alone collect the minimum draw in Rotterdam they will need to return to America in 12 months . |
| 11 | In fact , newspaper editors sometimes do not even exercise control over large sections of their newspapers . |
| 12 | As he points out , 18th-century Britons did not even define violence in our terms . |
| 13 | Physical geography in general , and geomorphology in particular , could be in danger of developing into a science which does not even attempt understanding of such basic mechanics and principles , partly by analogy with the decline of positivism in human geography . |
| 14 | The Tate can not even afford works by fine living British artists like Howard Hodgkin . |
| 15 | I gave one deflection burst from port beam at about 350 yards and one careful stern burst from the same distance , but could not even keep pace with this shallow dive . |
| 16 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 17 | Eqn ( 3.56 ) is complicated enough and that does not even take account of the finite diameter of the wire . |
| 18 | In fact , it does not even require memory for the trace . |
| 19 | An added irritant is that the SERC employs permanently people who would not even get jobs in universities now . |
| 20 | I did not even discuss terms with Wimbledon and I would have been quite happy to sign for Newcastle . |
| 21 | Home Office reports on football-ground safety in 1924 did not even raise hooliganism as an item on the agenda . |
| 22 | As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’ |
| 23 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 24 | The bill claimed to be ‘ putting the patient in the driving seat ’ , but it did not even allow patients to be consulted if a hospital decided to opt out of regional health authority control , he said . |
| 25 | This is interesting since Peavey did n't even start business until 1965 ; Hartley was just a kid in 1957 . |
| 26 | We ca n't even send mail without its being intercepted ! " |
| 27 | He would n't even make love to me , not properly , that is . |
| 28 | She felt a new and frightening sense of resentment that she could n't even feed Debbie in peace . |
| 29 | She ca n't even keep water down Doctor so she 's certainly not gon na keep that down . |
| 30 | She did n't even dare look for her , let alone make contact , but at least Chesarynth was as safe as Jezrael could make her . |