Example sentences of "even when [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ George did n't want to put the business at the cottage to them , you can see why , and it 's pretty clear they do n't want to believe in a conspiracy anyway , even when they knew about the Reznichenko Memorandum . ’ |
| 2 | He did n't see , not even when they got in the car and his Dad drove off . |
| 3 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 4 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 5 | ‘ Even when it stopped on the 5th ’ , the historian John Buchan was to write , ‘ there followed days of sombre skies and wet mists and mucky clouds . |
| 6 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 7 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 8 | Even when you look at the outer end of the physical spectrum , there are hopeful signs . |
| 9 | The blonde woman was always elegantly dressed and absolutely immaculate , even when she came off the beach , her hair neatly pinned up in a French pleat or out of sight under a chic floppy straw hat . |
| 10 | He walked by her side without touching her , even when she tripped on the uneven turf , and she knew she had destroyed anything there might have been . |
| 11 | But often , so drab is he that even when he barges into the pub waving a bottle of paraquat and shouting I dun n it , people just do n't want to know . |
| 12 | Even when he hid in the darkness he was just teasing . |
| 13 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |