Example sentences of "even when [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when they did get cover in the past , the premiums were punitively high . |
| 2 | Regarding behaviour , participants were asked to indicate from always ( five points ) to never ( one point ) the frequency of instances occurring where , for example , they got drunk even when they did not intend to ; their drinking left them short of cash ; they drank to help themselves deal with a crisis ; and they missed meals because they wanted to drink instead . |
| 3 | Even when they did succumb to the lure of tasty white eggs , they did not touch the nearby green eggs , despite the fact that they were perfectly harmless . |
| 4 | Why was it all women hated her so , even when they did n't know her ? |
| 5 | These plans did not always materialise and even when they did , they happened only slowly . |
| 6 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 7 | Even when they did , it tended to be in flippant terms ; for example , one student remarked that without physics ‘ we 'd be in a right mess for a start ’ ; another that ‘ we 'd still be in the caves ’ . |
| 8 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 9 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 10 | Therefore , it was possible for subjects to carry out a certain amount of integration of information even when they did not know the theme of the passage . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , so long as they did not organise — and sometimes even when they did — the workers themselves provided their employers with a solution to the problem of labour management : by and large they liked to work , and their expectations were remarkably modest . |
| 12 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 13 | Even when I did believe it we discussed it several times , but he would n't change his mind . |
| 14 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 15 | And even when she did put furniture in it |
| 16 | He learnt how to talk in the car on the way home , even when he did n't want to ; he learnt how to take a shower in somebody else 's bathroom without embarrassing himself . |
| 17 | He usually held his drink well , and behaved like a gentleman even when he did have one too many . |
| 18 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |