Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it is possible to enjoy them most when one is aware of them least . |
| 2 | You can wash the erm , the beaters , and you can put the cream next to the other bowl and I 'll mix them altogether when I 've got the lemon juice in . |
| 3 | We hurry them on when they want to stop and look at some new marvel . |
| 4 | There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then . |
| 5 | Put them on when you 're ready . ’ |
| 6 | His brood are five love bird chicks He took them on when their real parents died of exhaustion . |
| 7 | then you put them on when your feet are all swollen at the end of the day you 'll find them too tight . |
| 8 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 9 | But it did n't take me long When you 're finished , tell me what you think my profit was for the day . |
| 10 | She was about to pop them in when we heard the strains of the rag and boneman 's cry . |
| 11 | The best compromise is to disguise surface-run cables with paint , and chase them in when you next redecorate . |
| 12 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 13 | Some households take them in when not in use , I know that , but we never did , ours stayed there all the time like a yellow and blue tree . |
| 14 | Er I met them in when they were on holiday and that 's how I got in . |
| 15 | We have to be able to talk them in when necessary . ’ |
| 16 | I bet you feel like a now , give them in when they ca n't truss them du n no . |
| 17 | We give them in when they came trussed with the though we had before . |
| 18 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 19 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 20 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 21 | I 've put them down , I ca n't see them , I brought them down when I brought |
| 22 | Military and political commanders would normally decide to use them only when a war in Europe was in full swing . |
| 23 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 24 | The doctor is often the gate to all the other members of the health care team , although he or she may involve them only when problems have arisen . |
| 25 | The JNA itself claimed that Slovenes had kidnapped two of its soldiers on May 23 , releasing them only when tanks and armoured vehicles arrived at the defence force headquarters near Maribor . |
| 26 | If you can not pay them immediately , then you must tell them so when they are instructed in order that they can decline to accept the instructions if they wish . |
| 27 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 28 | Local reporters were keen to know how he managed to carry out his civic duties , to which Mr Snyder replied blithely that fellow committee members sat beside him during screenings and gave a running commentary ‘ to fill me in when the screen goes silent ’ . |
| 29 | He accepts he 's now more a mess-clearer than Messiah , saying : ‘ Clubs only call me in when they 're in a desperate situation . ’ |
| 30 | At night the Temple gates were always closed , but the night-porter let me in when I told him my name . |