Example sentences of "and even [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 2 | He would beg food from other children in school , eat their apple cores and even scoured bins for food , prosecuting barrister David Hale told the jury . |
| 3 | Delinquents have more commonly been the victims of adult assaults — often of a vicious , persistent and even calculated nature — than non-delinquents . |
| 4 | One blind person found lack of non-verbal communication a problem , though others felt able to compensate and even viewed blindness as helpful in some situations . |
| 5 | The compilers of the new Prayer Book talked of priests rather than ministers , and even incorporated sections of Laud 's 1637 Scottish Prayer Book into the communion rite . |
| 6 | It is ‘ live ’ entertainment at a time when more and more television is pre-recorded and packaged , and even recorded events can sustain uncertainty of outcome if the result is unknown to the viewer . |
| 7 | But his greatest achievement was in the study of mathematics and logic with his paper , The Relation between the Logical Theory of Classes and the Geometrical Theory of Points ( 1890 ) , which anticipated and even extended arguments later propounded by Bertrand ( third Earl ) Russell [ q.v. ] in The Principles of Mathematics ( 1903 ) . |
| 8 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 9 | Leading-edge camera systems , hi-fi set-ups and even tweaked auto-mobiles never come from one source . |
| 10 | There were meadow browns , small skippers , and even painted ladies flitting among the tall flowering grasses on the canal bank , bending them over as they settled , knocking off the pollen in puffs of fine , yellow mist . |
| 11 | However , although one or two balls did reach the land and even struck masonry , these were spent shot and did no real damage , the rest throwing up spouts of water harmlessly . |
| 12 | He organized a sales ledger which offered a credit account to naval customers , and even encouraged payment by instalment . |
| 13 | This is of course something extra to the continuous backing of detail , of weather conditions , locality and so on , which is part of the texture of this kind of story ; it is delivered in a more deliberate and even laboured manner . |
| 14 | A naturally gifted sportswoman , she became a proficient sculler , horsewoman , and mountaineer , and even mastered billiards . |
| 15 | Here he drank pastis with the mayors of the Basses-Alpes , and even found time to lecture on Edgar Allan Poe , although his new false teeth made it difficult for him to speak French . |
| 16 | Marx despised the peasantry and even found words of praise for the bourgeoisie 's destruction of the ancient way of life in the West : ‘ The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns . |
| 17 | adopted a subject department , attended staff meetings and training days and even accompanied school parties on educational visits . |
| 18 | This figure is a great deal better than that for the consecutive spill method of handling overflows , and even chained records randomized to individual addresses show an advantage over consecutive spill . |
| 19 | US Congressmen believed economic unity , by leading to greater efficiency , would guarantee that Marshall aid was well spent and even demanded evidence of greater integration before agreeing to support Marshall aid payments . |
| 20 | James Duke of York was unusually deeply interested in colonial affairs and colonial investment : apart from his ownership of what had been New Amsterdam , he was a governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company and of the Royal Africa Company , and several of the politicians at court invested in these companies and even held posts in them . |
| 21 | Broadcasting policy involved not only state-controlled or public service radio and television but also the cinema , the press and advertising : the state aided financially , partly regulated , and even owned film studios , newspapers and advertising agencies — but , since the Liberation , the mentality in all three was worlds removed from the bureaucratic tradition of state broadcasting . |
| 22 | Continual efforts to wring out every drop of water from our landscape by improving drainage for agriculture have made the glories of water meadows , winter floods and even overgrown streams extremely rare and precious . |
| 23 | The group were formerly varied and numerous , and even included trees perhaps 20 metres in height . |
| 24 | Britons were soon enjoying new and exciting things to eat — Roman snails cooked in wine sauce , and even stuffed dormice prepared in many different ways . |
| 25 | I followed Jones at the Tournament of Champions , which he won , and even predicted victory for him at the Bob Hope , which he also won . |
| 26 | National training in basic interviewing skills to be given to all police officers — this recognises the central role that confessions play in the police investigative strategy and the need to train officers out of the use of the ‘ persuasive techniques ’ , witnessed by the Commission 's researchers , which run the risk of producing unreliable evidence , in favour of a more open minded and even handed approach . |
| 27 | ‘ That was why , when she showed promise as an artist , my mother-in-law arranged for her to be trained in Paris — and even provided money for the purpose . ’ |
| 28 | However , everything was very civilised , as the Chinese travel staff , in their inevitable blue caps and jackets , ushered us through all the details , and even provided tea and lunch at the border station , in a rather old world atmosphere of chintz curtains and sofas with antimacassars . |
| 29 | Moves towards toleration began during 1686 , when James used his prerogative powers to grant a large number of pardons and remissions of fines ( especially to Quakers ) , and even allowed individuals to obtain dispensations from the penal laws . |
| 30 | To gather intelligence he interrogated Catholics , suspects , and prisoners , and even requested employment as ‘ surveyor of foreigners ’ . |