Example sentences of "even [subord] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danzig , even if its own journalists and citizens were harassed and threatened , was open to all the observation and criticism the world could muster . |
| 2 | Voters who read a stridently left- or right-wing paper are at least exercising some choice , even if their own partisanship is different from that of their paper . |
| 3 | And that even if my own son ca n't read , speak French or identify Mozart concertos , he can nearly walk and he 's brilliant at heading a ball . |
| 4 | Given that it is only half an hour from the coast and has charming country to both west and east , Cambo is a place to think perhaps of staying in , even if my own instincts would lead me to prefer one of the Basque villages . |
| 5 | Montgomery became aware of the absolute stillness of Sergeant Bird beside him , even as his own body under a rather creased white shirt held its vital functions in abeyance , blood crawling sluggishly through arteries and veins , diaphragm petrified . |
| 6 | To begin with , it is more likely to get an early warning of the cheetah 's approach , for even when its own head is down grazing , other heads are up and scanning the surrounding country ready to sound an alarm with a snort . |
| 7 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 8 | Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine , they still think that he or she is wonderful . |
| 9 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 10 | In our day and age , can you think of someone who has been so full of the Spirit that he 's had the courage to preach even when his own life was at stake ? |
| 11 | Like mother , like grandmother : research shows that big babies have big grandmas , even though their own mothers may be small . |
| 12 | What the James Committee placed on the agenda of public discussion — even though its own recommendations were in general not widely popular among teacher educators — was the reshaping of the education of teachers . |
| 13 | If you do that , then I think that even though your own values are bound to be in it a bit , they wo n't be in it in a way that makes the work useless or makes it appear hopefully prejudiced to someone else . |