Example sentences of "[be] [verb] when [pers pn] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a company , named after their Eton housemaster Bob Baird , which had been formed when they discovered that they were too young legally to book holidays themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ We should therefore hate the committee to think that we are complaining when we say that , far from having a benefit to declare , we were clearly disadvantaged and out of pocket . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 5 | may be appreciated when we reflect that if our rulers in the nineteenth century were educated at Eton , our rulers of the twentieth century are being educated in the elementary schools . |
| 6 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 7 | That figure may slightly nonplus a reader nurtured in these Caledonian climes ; and his bewilderment will not be lessened when he discovers that £600 was the annual rent charged for the same accommodation in 1912 . |
| 8 | These expectations are fulfilled when we find that the chief things for which Moore claims great intrinsic value are personal friendship and the appreciation of beautiful objects . |
| 9 | Our plans were dashed when I learned that another British company , GKN , had already signed a deal with Unimation . |
| 10 | But the young mother 's plans were dashed when she discovered that Gilfoyle was still married and that his wife was expecting . |
| 11 | I notice that a great many people were nodding when he suggested that , possibly including the hon. Lady , who should not be so argumentative because I am agreeing with him . |
| 12 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 13 | Donald McIntyre ( 1970 ) illustrates what is missing when he suggests that the ‘ result ’ of a pupil 's mathematics exam , instead of 40 per cent , might be recorded as a ‘ diagnostic profile ’ thus : |
| 14 | The government , they say , is bluffing when it claims that TECs are intended to tackle Britain 's persistent skills shortage . |
| 15 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 16 | The poet 's wife was told when they arrived that they would want to film her . |
| 17 | Sukarno was rebuffed when he asked that there should be a Greater Indonesia including the British territories , Malaya , Singapore and North Borneo . |
| 18 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |
| 19 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |
| 20 | Does the Minister accept that the Secretary of State was mistaken when he said that the initial slow and small take-up of student loans showed that there was no widespread poverty and hardship among students since all the evidence of citizens advice bureaux , Members ' mail and so on shows clearly that , because of the reducing value of student grants and the attack on student benefits , there is real and widespread hardship and poverty among the British student population ? |
| 21 | Her decision was reinforced when she heard that the Queen Mother , with whom she has also clashed , was also going to attend the wedding . |
| 22 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 23 | No one 's temper was improved when they learned that the Land Rover had parked right on the patch of ground they were going to plant things in . |
| 24 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |