Example sentences of "even when it [vb past] " 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 | The United States was unable to restrain Israel even when it felt it was necessary to do so against Syria in June 1967 and against Lebanon in 1982 . |
| 3 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 4 | But even at his most confused , the essence of Maurice was still there , and we loved him for it even when it drove us spare . |
| 5 | He was always on the watch for an affront , which he would often imagine even when it had not been intended , an easy thing for a Frenchman at a politically sensitive time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In this same category , but with an even more urgent insistence , he placed the irreversibility of monastic commitment , even when it fell short of a formal vow . |
| 10 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 11 | And the Journal 's not exactly a reliable record of what happened to him — or even when it happened . |
| 12 | Yet she refused absolutely to recognise it , even when it jumped up and hit her in the face . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Nothing went smoothly , even when it appeared that the most minute details had been described with no further room for misunderstanding . |
| 15 | 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 . |