Example sentences of "[pers pn] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wood panelling echoes slightly ; Lord Aldington 's counsel , Charles Gray QC , has a voice like a bumble-bee : a moment 's inattention and his even , well-modulated and comforting tones seem to embark on an erratic , heavy flight around the room . |
| 2 | His secret fears and his even more secret hopes . |
| 3 | For the Sex Pistols , Richard was prepared to weather the scornful disapproval of Eve and Ted on his even occasional visits to Shamley Green . |
| 4 | Soon after that feud , von Frisch made his even more controversial discovery , of the dance language of the honeybee . |
| 5 | But it was good just to lie in the darkness , curled against him , listening to his even breathing , and know this was just the first night of the rest of their lives . |
| 6 | Darwin 's conclusion then , in direct contrast to that of his even more orthodox Captain , was that the Galapagos finches could only be varieties , and were therefore not worth collecting carefully . |
| 7 | I even meet him for dinner from time to time . |
| 8 | I even spent every evening last week in , in case . |
| 9 | I even have a job title — Special Projects Officer — but I have no work . |
| 10 | In fact I even found myself trying to diagnose it like an illness , analysing it in terms of location , sensation , modalities , concomitants . ’ |
| 11 | I even said to myself , ‘ He 's English and yet he understands . ’ ’ |
| 12 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 13 | This proved tricky as Maria spoke little English and I even less Greek . |
| 14 | ‘ I even found myself very briefly attached to the US 8th Army Air Force ! |
| 15 | Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone . |
| 16 | I even got my old room back in the Goethestrasse . ’ |
| 17 | Like I say , she 's sleeping well now , and she 's often up before I even wake up . |
| 18 | I even resorted to going to a hairdresser who guaranteed that I 'd emerge with dead straight hair . |
| 19 | I even have a sneaking affection for the man . |
| 20 | I even did the scenery for that one . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw it in the papers , I even noticed that the car was missing , and it was a BMW . |
| 22 | I knew it before I even signed . ’ |
| 23 | Sometimes I even thought of you as one of my favourite fictional heroines , Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss , while I was Philip Waken , though not such a limp type . |
| 24 | I even asked her if it was her that smashed that kiosk up ! |
| 25 | ‘ That 's no good , is it ? — He , 11 be dead before I even reach the phone . ’ |
| 26 | I even tried the DTI — there 's just no money in this country . |
| 27 | I even tried the DTI — there 's just no money in this country . |
| 28 | It is possible that I even dozed off for a few seconds , exhausted by the day 's work . |
| 29 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 30 | I think I even intended to gather up the sleeping bundle in my arms and take it away from this dreadful precipice . |