Example sentences of "even if it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed .
2 Even if it had maggots and things in it and it was all horrible ? ’
3 That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier .
4 Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists .
5 Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth .
6 General Leclerc , as a soldier , was not , at least not to begin with , and believed not only that the reconquest of Tonkin , even in part , was impossible but that a negotiated settlement was essential even if it conceded independence .
7 She would stab him to death if he dared bring that hideous hag in here , even if it involved blood spurting over the recently redecorated ceiling .
8 Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse .
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