Example sentences of "even when [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governments over the '60s and '70s , as I suggested earlier , have not had the capacity , even when they have had the will , to launch a frontal assault on the organised working class and force through a radical restructuring in spite of its resistance . |
| 2 | One thing I will commend you for , it took a lot of ball to carry on even when you had lost the thread . |
| 3 | Even when you 've got the hand of it there 's precious little skill involved — you just stand toe to toe and hit each other ! |
| 4 | Even when you have convinced the travel agent that there is such a place , you are likely to become involved in a series of long telephone conversations . |
| 5 | So even when he 'd got the drop on them they could still count on messing him around somehow . |