Example sentences of "even when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired — even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek . |
| 2 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 3 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 4 | In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of European agriculture , farmers are paid more to grow more even when nobody wants to buy what they produce . |
| 5 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 6 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |
| 7 | Some were embarrassingly naive about the rules of engagement and readily admitted their drug use even when we had little or no evidence to prove the point ; a most ‘ un-prig ’ like quality ! |
| 8 | ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 10 | It has always been my hope that he did n't trouble to bestir himself even when we had gone out of sight . |
| 11 | " To be honest , even when we had a girls ' training week at Inverclyde it was almost on the schedule that everyone would get legless on one of the evenings . " |
| 12 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 13 | Recruits refused to search for these food sources , even when we put a food source in a boat in the lake at the indicated spot . |
| 14 | We should all be exercising , even when we do it badly , even when we cut a ridiculous figure as we job along , puffing and panting . |
| 15 | Even when we go through welcome transitions — such as getting married , moving house or having a baby — we need to mourn our former life . |
| 16 | And even when we stop laughing the good feeling lasts for up to 45 minutes . |
| 17 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
| 18 | We have to persuade the pupils that what they are doing is worthwhile — even when we doubt it ourselves . |
| 19 | We must beware of this tendency , even when we exploit it . |
| 20 | ‘ Even when we met , Eric had very strong ideas and was very passionate about things . |
| 21 | Even when we married it was going to be a secret for a bit . |
| 22 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 23 | However , even when we concentrate on fixed investment in manufacturing , no single theory ‘ explains ’ much of the variation in investment . |
| 24 | Even when we signed to RCA , they were the only company to actually make an offer to sign the band , although there were one or two others flirting with the idea . ’ |
| 25 | Even when we defer to a creature 's apparent preference ( for a particular type of food , let us say ) the decision will be dictated by our desire to keep it fit and healthy . |
| 26 | Even when we use the GPC rules this must be in conjunction with a maintained orthographic code of the word being processed . |
| 27 | Even when we use ‘ real ’ rates of interest , i.e. the nominal rate adjusted for inflation , the correlation is still far from clear . |
| 28 | Even when we played and beat Arsenal two weeks ago , Ian still scored twice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You 've never had those before , not even when we 've been on tour . ’ |