Example sentences of "even [vb pp] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the church looks robust ; and it is even intended to rebuild the long-vanished cloister on the north side . |
| 2 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 3 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 4 | Following the revolution of 1905 some of them even recommended liquidating the revolutionary organization altogether . |
| 5 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 6 | In Barnsley in the early 1950s men were even seen reading the ‘ green'un ’ over their partner 's shoulder as they mechanically steered the wife around the ballroom on a Saturday night . |
| 7 | In effect , a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ still surrounds those northern Protestants who at various times and in their different ways condemned the landlord system , called for a wider franchise , disapproved of religious bigotry , or even sought to break the connection with Britain . |
| 8 | the boy joined a Communist youth group , became more masculine and energetic , and participated in protest marches and picketing and even dared to wear the party button in school . |
| 9 | Soda was much cheaper , if less effective , and was sometimes even used to wash the children 's hair . |
| 10 | He had even offered to run the boys to school , but , no , she had needed the car . |
| 11 | Most extraordinary of all , in 1942 a despairing Stalin even offered to trade the Ukraine , Belorussia and parts of Russia itself for peace . |
| 12 | The developer has even offered to pay the £80,000 needed for this , but English Heritage remain obdurate . |
| 13 | He had taken a book from the shelves at random but , for the last ten minutes , had n't even bothered to turn the page . |
| 14 | This group of professionals has not even bothered to ease the biggest problem facing entrepreneurs — apart from the unavailability of cheap finance — which is the lack of cash flow that results from customers not paying bills on time . |
| 15 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 16 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 17 | If we return to the theory we started with , we will realise that we have not even bothered to decode the message . |
| 18 | They had been shocked to hear that the policy was to do nothing , and I was astonished that the FO had n't even bothered to disguise the fact . |
| 19 | one client who was antagonistic at first , and even refused to let the support worker into the house on her second day , but after that ‘ Was fine ’ ; |
| 20 | Someone even remembered seeing the famous photograph of Frankie on Trigger , his circus pony . |
| 21 | I was even asked to remove the jam and icing from a biscuit at a recent party ! |
| 22 | Citizens were not even allowed to sing the Marseillaise for themselves . |
| 23 | Not having done very well at school ( not even allowed to sit the Oxbridge exams ) , she had nevertheless been diligent about her piano lessons , and was in fact quite good on the instrument . |
| 24 | Tourists and journalists , including , to their chagrin , the three American network , were detained in a hotel on the airport road and were not even allowed to watch the cars pass by . |
| 25 | I have even tried knitting the pattern without taking the yarn out of the yarn feeder to do the transfer rows indicated at the side of the punchcard . |
| 26 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 27 | Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , Scotland 's Lord Advocate , said he would have resigned if exposed to political pressure , and Assistant Attorney-General Bob Mueller insisted that no one had even tried to influence the investigation . |
| 28 | Eventually , Lenin was even forced to acknowledge the need for bureaucratic privilege . |
| 29 | Having gone conspicuously quiet for over an hour , disappearing before we had even finished unpacking the car , there is nothing more to be deduced than the obvious . |
| 30 | Have n't even started answering the pile I got yesterday . ’ |