Example sentences of "[verb] when they [vb base] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians can only be trusted when they think that they are on the winning side and will ignore any democratic mechanism to prove that they are ‘ right ’ . |
| 2 | The enemy becomes particularly demoralized when they realize that it is a unit of women behind the line of fire making them retreat . |
| 3 | According to P-E , 80% of course participants believe when they arrive that they conform to the 9,9 idea , . |
| 4 | They are very good though , they come when they say and they , they d they do something about it |
| 5 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 6 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |