Example sentences of "even [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , it often meant being ignored , even regarded as less intelligent . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I had even built up quite a good knowledge of medical terms . |
| 5 | Why should not ‘ middle-class values ’ — loosely articulated as industry , honesty , thrift , ambition , prudence , civility — be encouraged or even imposed more widely ? |
| 6 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 7 | She says that they have n't even had long enough to see if burning animal clinical waste has caused any problems . |
| 8 | Listen you 're not even tidied up yet . |
| 9 | Even tidied up afterwards ? ’ |
| 10 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 11 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | In the event , however , Labour actually suffered a swing against it compared with 1986 , lost a net total of 20 seats and , in some boroughs , even performed less well than at the 1987 general election . |
| 14 | Yes , they knew these names ; even isolated out here , they knew of Crom Croich . |
| 15 | Two stadium-sized managerial talents holding half-time team talks while the rest of the soccer world has not even kicked off yet . |
| 16 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 17 | Blimey we ai n't even gone round once yet Phil ! |
| 18 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 19 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 20 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 21 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 22 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 23 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 24 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
| 25 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 26 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 27 | The novice teacher will require careful guidance through the option structure of the program with clear explanations and very limited demands in terms of making choices , if he is not to be distracted from the normal demands of teaching or even put off completely . |