Example sentences of "[pron] when [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potatoes also contain an alkaloid called solanine , which when it occurs naturally in the potato at a level of approximately 0.01% is responsible for the characteristic flavour of the tuber . |
| 2 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll get her something when she comes home for that . ’ |
| 4 | Katy was looking very pleased with herself when she came home from the nursery . |
| 5 | For a start , I smelt your spoor on her when we danced together at the wedding . |
| 6 | He was accused of flirting with her when he talked more about her looks than her movie Frankie and Johnny . |
| 7 | ‘ Will you take Donald for a little walk , Christine ? ’ her mother asked her when she came home from school one afternoon . |
| 8 | Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa carried a new version of an announcement on recognition with him when he returned home from hastily-arranged talks in Israel . |
| 9 | Thomas 's confrère Roger Bacon [ q.v. ] was probably referring to him when he wrote scornfully of a colleague who had presumed to teach philosophy without having read it ( Opus Minus , ed . |
| 10 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 11 | She was surprised to find that she was not at all self-conscious with him and she moved to nestle comfortably against him when he rolled away from her and propped himself up on the pillows . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , mon cher , ’ I told him when he stormed below after having a row with Igor . |
| 13 | We 'll return to it when we get there in that case . |
| 14 | ‘ I really enjoy it when we play quietly like this . ’ |
| 15 | It was convenient because they could put her to sleep in it when they stayed overnight in strange houses . |
| 16 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 17 | YAKOV TOLSTIKOV is among the favourites to win one of the big-money prizes in the ADT London Marathon on Sunday , but however much he makes he will struggle to spend it when he returns home to Siberia . |
| 18 | ‘ Bess Halidon , your mother , gave me proof of it when she came here on the day prior to her death and asked that you be found employment . ’ |
| 19 | For some reason , he disliked it when she behaved badly in front of Marjorie . |
| 20 | You can do it when you come home from work and you 're all right at week-ends. i could dance . |
| 21 | When you go home on a lunch time , you do n't need it when you go home at lunchtime . |
| 22 | However , both fixed interest loans are portable , so borrowers can take their mortgages with them when they move home with no penalty charge . |
| 23 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |
| 24 | Well to me when I come home of the Crimean I look at these massive tips you know in Blaenau on your left and the old on the right and that , erm if the old man that first rucked his pick and shovel or whatever trussel and or whatever they started would have known what he was starting then , it was like the Klondike of Wales . |
| 25 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 26 | I do n't know I have n't looked at the invitation , he just told me when he came home from school he 'd got a party . |