Example sentences of "[verb] when they [am/are] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps a common expression of this are the preparations people undertake when they are about to go on a trip .
2 How are social relations visualized and operated when they are not moulded by the impersonal ideology of capitalism ?
3 Those admitted to the acute wards with severely uncontrolled diabetes are transferred when they are sufficiently recovered and undergo assessment of their self-management .
4 Skimming along the water-front with the peculiarly flat ride jeeps give when they 're not lurching on one wheel over lumpy terrain .
5 She also helps with the care assistants , giving them something to do when they are not dealing with me .
6 Anybody in any walk of life knows how they feel when they 're not doing their jobs properly . ’
7 The ‘ underclass ’ is what the working poor become when they are not employed .
8 Although experimental methods provide a highly economical and efficient method of investigating a speaker 's responses to particular items of structure , the main difficulty associated with them is the mismatch which sociolinguists have consistently found between what speakers claim when they are directly questioned , and what they actually do , as evidenced by their linguistic behaviour in naturally occurring conversation .
9 I mean sometimes medicines are certainly prescribed and bought when they are n't needed .
10 ‘ If they succeed as well as they did when they 're not trying to kill you , what might n't they achieve if they decide they do want to ?
11 ( People often believe they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices . )
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