Example sentences of "even [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few of the more level headed ones , obviously relieved at the prospect of imminent rescue from the evil sect which had ensnared them , even joined in and lent a hand . |
| 2 | So he had not destroyed most of the buildings , along with their inhabitants , had even erected more and improved the walls and defences . |
| 3 | Some even pointed out that job rotation , which was suggested as being a way of understanding the whole picture of a factory , was inefficient . |
| 4 | The question of her hair , however , brought about a confrontation , Madame arguing that Ellie 's long hair , even caught up as it was in a chignon , was completely out of fashion , and quite ruined the look Madame was trying to create . |
| 5 | Some of the Indian princes had private stations , and in China special stations were even built so that the Emperor could visit the western tombs at the appropriate time of the year . |
| 6 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |
| 7 | IBM 's Advanced Workstations & Systems president Bill Filip said last week that the company 's emergent RS/6000 business broke even or may have even done better than that in calendar 1992 though it was still ‘ overinvesting on development . ’ |
| 8 | Some were even cultivated over and their long-time entrances completely disappeared . |
| 9 | The trophy was even cleaned up and refurbished before being returned to the course for the race . |
| 10 | They may be vertical , horizontal , diagonal or even spelt backwards but all are in a straight line . |
| 11 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |
| 12 | Some general practitioners have even banded together and threatened a wholesale withdrawal of funding unless the local hospital provides dermatological services in the community . |
| 13 | Quarry walls , drainage cuts , spoil heaps , road works , railway sidings … are sometimes colonised before the workmen at these sites ( who mostly view the small birds with tolerance ) have even packed up and left . |
| 14 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 15 | This trend was then halted or even reversed thereafter as large companies especially in manufacturing transferred their excess labour into smaller subcontractors or satellite companies . |
| 16 | Sometimes it is even stated categorically that they do not . |
| 17 | Now we did n't have a voice , remember we were never even informed before or until two years later after the event that it had happened . |
| 18 | It was never even mentioned afterwards and I reckon 99 percent of players at that time would have sacked me . |
| 19 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 20 | Knowledge of him was so slim that the magazine Private Eye even suggested mischievously that the Department of Energy computer might have mistakenly selected him instead of another man of the same name . |