Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're always there when you need one , even in the rain or when the theatres are closing . |
| 2 | You 're usually here when something happens . |
| 3 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll be all right when we go down the other side . ’ |
| 5 | At last , after another million years persuading David she would be all right when she had taken some aspirin , she was alone , in her own flat . |
| 6 | Dear God , thought Jessica , seeing the words in her best handwriting , Dear God let it be all right when I get home and I 'll never … |
| 7 | I might not always be there exactly when you want me , but I 'll check in from time to time . |
| 8 | I did my shopping , had some lunch , and they were still here when we crossed over , going home . |
| 9 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 10 | But the women were still there when she looked again ; twenty or thirty of them , in various states of undress — although none , she was relieved to notice once she could take things in , was actually naked . |
| 11 | He fell asleep , but the pains in his head were still there when he awoke in the morning . |
| 12 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 13 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 14 | But he is all right when you get to know him . |
| 15 | It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past . |
| 16 | Oh it 's all right when you do n't foot the bill , is n't it ? |
| 17 | But it 's always there when you need it . |
| 18 | Where we practise in England — I wo n't reveal where — Pete 's always there when I turn up . |
| 19 | It 's like a bad dream , and you see a guy pointing a gun at you , but he 's still there when you open your eyes , and he wo n't go away . |
| 20 | This is particularly so when you take into account that most people feel they are in the right when they are angry , whether they are or not . |
| 21 | He was a Gemini , and it was all there when you knew what to look for : the cleverness , the ability to dissemble , the airy arrogance , the wry cynicism , the way he was expert at playing a double game … |
| 22 | ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist . |
| 23 | The Volvo was already there when we arrived . |
| 24 | William was already there when he arrived at the restaurant , and halfway through a bottle of wine . |
| 25 | Steve was already there when I got back . |
| 26 | Bridget was already there when I arrived . |
| 27 | I was just there when it started . ’ |
| 28 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 29 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |
| 30 | it was still there when I took |