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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 12 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the past , it often meant being ignored , even regarded as less intelligent . |
| 15 | Some observers then thought he might not even survive that long . |
| 16 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |
| 17 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 18 | He probably could n't even speak clearly enough at this point for anyone to hear him properly . |
| 19 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 20 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 21 | We even sailed as far as Singapore . |
| 22 | it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ? |
| 23 | Unfortunately , even with the practice of awarding half a star over the minimum grading the system is not entirely satisfactory as standards and even prices very enormously in each star grade . |
| 24 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 25 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 26 | She says that they have n't even had long enough to see if burning animal clinical waste has caused any problems . |
| 27 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 28 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't even got that far in the analysis of this new theory but it only adds to my doubts about it all anyway . |
| 30 | it 's even going here now . |