Example sentences of "even when he [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when he was resting the horseman had to be on the alert for incidents like this to see that nothing untoward happened to his team . |
| 2 | Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) . |
| 3 | Outwardly he seemed to have very little interest in me , yet he watched me ; even when he was looking away , he watched me ; and he waited . |
| 4 | She was glad to be with Felipe even when he was raging . |
| 5 | Where Lewis looked at the world around him , even when he was writing autobiography , Leavis looked ever more attentively at himself . |
| 6 | Even when he was writing of other things , there steals again and again into his verse the sea , the estuary , the fiat Suffolk coast , local meannesses , and an odour of brine and dirt — tempered occasionally with the scent of flowers . |
| 7 | Leonard 's mind was such that he always had several ironies in his fire at any one time , even when he was seeking to demythologise some of them ! |
| 8 | She would n't tell him about her income , even when he was trying to fill in his tax forms . |
| 9 | Even when he was trying to be a criminal , the low moral fibre shone through . |
| 10 | This was in part due to Reginald Birch 's illustrations which kept the boy always in black velvet and lace , even when he was riding his pony , and in part to the intense relationship between mother and son ; Mrs Burnett here had in mind herself and her son Vivian , upon whom Fauntleroy himself was modelled . |
| 11 | He really was remarkably handsome , even when he was trussed up like a turkey ready for Christmas . |
| 12 | Yet even when he was sequestered and suspended he still kept his privileges and immunities as an officer of Chancery . |
| 13 | Even when he was cornered at St Bertrand de Comminges Gundovald had quantities of gold and silver . |
| 14 | Even when he was clothed , the firelight played up his flexing muscles as he removed his jumper to use as a pillow . |
| 15 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 16 | Consequently Courtney got away with most of his crimes and even when he was brought to trial he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison . |
| 17 | In one of heavyweight boxing 's most distinguished nights , Bowe had to tear the crown from a champion who refused to accept the inevitability of defeat even when he was knocked down and seemingly out in the 11th round of a brilliant fight . |
| 18 | Richard Nixon , even when he was running against John Kennedy in 1960 , took an entirely different view . |
| 19 | The beauty of it was that Campese could cause such a fearful commotion even when he was running on to nothing more appetising than set piece possession , either from the scrum or the line-out . |