Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] when they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 2 | Very few people knew that yet I was there when they opened poor Catherine 's dumpy body and took out her heart . |
| 3 | cos you were there when they called were n't you and they revised it ? |
| 4 | We 're here when they need us and are n't paid when they do n't . ’ |
| 5 | but there 's both when they 've taken two out with the members here and they 've got their , you know , money , they are left out then |
| 6 | Well the , the first time they were here when they gon na have the all ni when they were gon na have the all-nighter erm , they hired a laser in it was superb ! |
| 7 | Yet how could it be otherwise when they did not know where she was ? |
| 8 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 9 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 10 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 11 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 12 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |