Example sentences of "when [noun pl] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | When afros came in I gave up . |
| 2 | He said that he was competing with Windows 3 because ‘ when monopolies come into play , innovation slows down . ’ |
| 3 | Just as teacher secondment is most successful when teachers go out with a specific purpose in mind , so employer secondment works best when employers come into school with a particular task to perform . |
| 4 | When cases came to court , the police often dropped charges in return for binding-over orders , issued under an even more ancient statute , the Justices of the Peace Act 1361 . |
| 5 | We talk to one victim who says all sides should be named when cases come to court . |
| 6 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 7 | When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in . |
| 8 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 9 | do n't that put you off when drivers come the other way and you 've got right of way and they always go , and they go past |
| 10 | ‘ When husbands come to fetch their wives after school , they gasp ‘ what have you done with my wife , she has become so gentle ! ’ ’ |
| 11 | This is especially important when teenagers come for weekends or holidays only . |
| 12 | But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example . |
| 13 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 14 | It 's filthy around the factory.And when visitors come they often step in the sheep droppings . |
| 15 | me that , when visitors come you , you gi , you give them the |
| 16 | The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came . |
| 17 | When parents come to judge a school their first impressions will be a major factor . |
| 18 | Teachers must rise to the task of making sure that when parents come to judge schools they do so in a way which identifies — and , in so doing , promotes — genuine quality . |
| 19 | When parents come round the school , what they sometimes say is ‘ My goodness we never had all these facilities ’ , so at a very superficial level you could say that is a big change . |
| 20 | If we cheated about not having it back you know , when parents came in June but we do n't need it immediately you know , it does n't have to be photocopied so that we all |
| 21 | But when Saturdays come and the pressure is on you can see that some players are not as confident as they should be and that 's probably our main problem . ’ |
| 22 | When tapes come into me I have a listen to the beginning and end of them all to sort of see what sort of quality they are |
| 23 | Nearly , but not quite ; and when guests come back after a hard day in the hills , displaying half a dozen beautiful fish , and are asked where they caught them , they might reply ‘ Shhhh ’ , rather than admit malpractice . |
| 24 | When Finals came , Roland did steadily and predictably well . |
| 25 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't like the situation and when Hibs came in for me , it made it easier to move . |
| 27 | When things go wrong , when families come into conflict , people start talking about my rights ! |
| 28 | If you have a positive attitude towards yourself and your work , it means that when problems come along they will be easier to handle , you wo n't give up too easily , and you wo n't feel sorry for yourself if things go wrong . |
| 29 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 30 | Up until then I had found that when difficulties came or doubts arose in my Christian life , I could always escape their force by not holding myself answerable for my own faith . |