Example sentences of "even when she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoyed brushing it , even when she made him stand so long behind her chair that his arms ached and his eyelids started to droop . |
| 2 | Mr Jones said : ‘ Even when she knew she was dying , her concern was for other people , not herself . |
| 3 | Even when she strokes my inner thigh , back and forth like rocking a cradle , I hardly notice what she is doing . |
| 4 | Carrie was afraid at first that Albert would despise such a babyish pastime but he seemed to enjoy it as much as Nick did , shouting with laughter when he tripped over bumps in the ice and not wanting to stop , even when she said it was time they were going . |
| 5 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 6 | Oddly , though , even when she opened her mouth to betray her pact with Naylor , she found that she could not betray him . |
| 7 | The lady in the story ( as plainly told as it is titled ) inexplicably turns , halfway through an ordinary afternoon , into a bright-eyed vixen ; and the man in the story , equally inexplicably , Boy thought , remains faithful to her and loves her dearly even when she leaves him in order to raise a family with another animal and he even , in the end , goes mad with love for her . |
| 8 | Even when she shows her body agonisingly engulfed by external forces , Frida Kahlo 's direct gaze out of the canvas and into the eyes of the viewer leaves no doubt that the use of her body as raw material is a very deliberate strategy , and that her immersion in a greater universe is a source of strength , not weakness . |
| 9 | Even when she closed her eyes they were still daggered by its scintillations . |