Example sentences of "even when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always been my hope that he did n't trouble to bestir himself even when we had gone out of sight . |
| 2 | And even when we stop laughing the good feeling lasts for up to 45 minutes . |
| 3 | Many feminists will come this far with me but still shy away from the idea of pay for childcare , even when we 've clarified that it 's not the same demand as Wages for Housework . |
| 4 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
| 5 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 6 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 7 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 8 | But even when we have allowed for this , there is no ready way of defining the category ‘ art ’ from these undoubted and general human perceptions , which we are bound to recognize as more widely applicable and thus not reducible to a specialization . |
| 9 | Even when we do become more aware , how do we know whether what we are doing is ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ ? |
| 10 | First , we never fight unless we have to ; and second , even when we do fight , we stop as soon as the threat to our health and safety has been removed . |
| 11 | The question is whether it is worthwhile to check out the " priorities even when we seem to have what we want . |
| 12 | As it is , she has resisted all attempts of the club to involve local residents in these community-related activities , even when they offered to clean her car and windows free ! |
| 13 | For the most part they contented themselves with the material evidence available in the form of bones and artefacts , yet even when they began to observe living animals good behavioural description did not expose the factors that transformed the infrahuman primate society into a human one . |
| 14 | … children are used to feeling dissatisfied with their work , to expect chiding from the teacher and often mockery from their friends and to find that even when they 've tried their hardest , the results do n't reflect the amount of effort expended . |
| 15 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 16 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 17 | Necessity sometimes drove half-pay officers to seek a commission in an active battalion even when they had attained such an advanced age that any chance of a successful military career was long over . |
| 18 | Even when they bent to sip tea , their sharp eyes , like those of wary creatures at a water hole , flickered this way and that above the teacup rims . |
| 19 | And even when they do make a specific choice , non-cost factors are generally more important to them than cost factors . |
| 20 | Even when they do meet , on flat overcast weekday afternoons at her house , it 's often hopeless . |
| 21 | The process in both branches of the profession impacts adversely on women and ethnic minorities , who , even when they do enter the profession , tend to be relegated to lower status work ( Hazell , 1978 ; Podmore and Spencer , 1982 ; Cohen , 1982b and 1982c ; Abel , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | If the opinions of the referees agree there is no real problem , but sometimes they do not , and even when they do agree the editor 's decision may not appear to agree with the opinions . |
| 23 | Thus , even when they do provide employment to otherwise unemployed people , they do so primarily to unregistered part-time job seekers . |
| 24 | Your daffodils seem to be suffering from the problem known as ‘ blindness ’ , that is they produce foliage but even when they do produce buds these remain small and dry out before opening up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Even when they did get cover in the past , the premiums were punitively high . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Scientists , economically linked to their enterprise and preoccupied with patents , can not be trusted to protect the public interest even when they seem to try . |
| 29 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 30 | Anorexics have a false idea of their own appearance , seeing themselves as fat even when they have become painfully thin . |