Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] even [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAPTAIN Kirk finally makes peace with the Klingons , albeit unwillingly … it 's the end of an era … although considering it takes place four hundred years in the future , it has n't even begun yet . |
| 2 | When it has n't even started — this phoney war . ’ |
| 3 | It has n't even got a proper floor . |
| 4 | You 're so neurot look it do n't even sound like him . |
| 5 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 6 | She had little money for clothes , but that did not matter ; it did not even matter , much , to her , though sometimes she wished she had more than two dresses , one pink , one grey . |
| 7 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 8 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 9 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 10 | One may ask what account the firm took of the duties it owed of confidentiality and good faith , bearing in mind that , far from inquiring whether the BR board would object , it did not even say what it was doing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 14 | A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers . |
| 15 | For two years until autumn 1991 and Dr Chiappini 's appointment , it did not even have a director . |
| 16 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 17 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 18 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 19 | He bought four rounds of double scotches last night and it did n't even make a hole in what he 'd got . ’ |
| 20 | it did n't even make it back in time for 1992 when there was no competition so now it 's back in the UK it is appropriate that Western can enjoy its company . |
| 21 | It did n't even start until 11 p.m . |
| 22 | It did n't even matter that coffee would probably keep her awake — in her present state of mind she 'd never be able to sleep anyway . |
| 23 | ‘ It did n't even do what ‘ Sheep in Fog ’ did . ’ |
| 24 | It was so big it did n't even fit inside the shed . |
| 25 | My pleasure at the success of the operation turned a bit sour when the others calmly walked up the road and photographed the animal with standard lenses — and it did n't even bother getting up . |
| 26 | My dog was run over by one of them ; the bus was going so fast it did n't even stop . |
| 27 | The car was an old Morris Minor It did n't even have a radio fitted . |
| 28 | Hell , it did n't even have to do anything ; it did n't have to act on prayers or have us singled out as a special species , or play any part in our history and development ; it did n't even necessarily have to have created us , or created anything , all it had to do was exist and have existed and go on existing , to record , to encompass . |
| 29 | ‘ It did n't even have a door ! |
| 30 | It did n't even look like a café . |