Example sentences of "even [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disconcertingly to those who remember him as Old Stoneface , he even laughs occasionally now . |
| 2 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
| 3 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 4 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 5 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 6 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 8 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 9 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 10 | He even goes so far , as to claim that ‘ notionally , in the short term you could achieve the necessary revenue only with the IBM customers … |
| 11 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 12 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 13 | He admired the stonework of the school , the windows and even pointed out how quaint it was having two handles on each side of the door . |
| 14 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 15 | In the centre and west , in Croatia and Slovenia , the military frontier held , but throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these areas were the victims of frequent raids by marauding bands of Turks , who even penetrated as far as Graz . |
| 16 | She had immediately closed her mind to all thought , not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan 's hand . |
| 17 | In the past , it often meant being ignored , even regarded as less intelligent . |
| 18 | If he fails he 's likely to become expendable and could even wind up back at Barnsley , a forgotten man . |
| 19 | But I think it must be , I got up when he went to work , half past seven and I have n't sat down I have n't even sat down then to eat because I |
| 20 | Some observers then thought he might not even survive that long . |
| 21 | Unless you work in Accounts , the probability is that you do n't even know how quickly your company pays your suppliers , or how quickly your customers pay you . |
| 22 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 23 | It 's o onl only a thought anyway , we just , as I say we 're just erm we 're mulling it over and it has n't the jobs have n't even come up yet , but erm it 's , it 's it 's a means to a |
| 24 | I had even built up quite a good knowledge of medical terms . |
| 25 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 26 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |
| 27 | He did n't even show up brightly with Carrie . |
| 28 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 29 | He probably could n't even speak clearly enough at this point for anyone to hear him properly . |
| 30 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |