Example sentences of "even when it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , quite sure ; even when it began to arrive , dish after khaki-coloured dish , covering the whole surface of the table , I was not daunted . |
| 2 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 3 | Even when it does get to them , they seem fairly insecticide-tolerant . |
| 4 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 5 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 6 | When I was at London-evacuated-to-Cambridge I went everywhere by sit-up-and-beg-bike ( no gears ) , even when it meant cycling in ruts in the snow left by cars ( tricky ) . |
| 7 | Even when it 's switched off ? |
| 8 | Wayans prides himself on his no-sacred-cows approach to comedy , even when it has led to controversy . |
| 9 | Looking back from the vantage point of the twentieth-century ‘ welfare state ’ we can also see , however , that every state , even when it has had a primarily repressive character , has also performed other necessary functions in the coordination and regulation of complex societies , especially through the development of a system of law , and in some cases — as with the Roman Empire — has had a generally civilizing influence . |