Example sentences of "[adv prt] when [pron] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , modern games slow down when they 're run on fast PCs . |
| 2 | Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent . |
| 3 | The discipline within the team let us down when we were put under pressure — but perhaps it 's the kick in the pants we needed , ’ Jennings said . |
| 4 | You 've certainly got to have the bottle to keep your foot right down when you are coming into a corner at 200 mph . |
| 5 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 6 | Even in narrow legal terms , possession and use can not be separated absolutely ; but the notion of mere ‘ possession ’ breaks down when it is considered in its military and political context . |
| 7 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 8 | The injured police officer had been trying to get drivers to slow down when he was hit by a car that lost control . |
| 9 | And , to complete his heartbreak , his car broke down when he was looking for his ninth win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix . |
| 10 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 11 | Now one of the areas we can get involved in when we 're talking to our clients is well what do they mean by cancer ? |
| 12 | But in this quarry now in when we were working for everybody was on the same bonus , you know they was they were all partners . |
| 13 | All the things that you take a curious interest in when you are lying under a car after a road accident , waiting for the ambulance to arrive and thinking that you 'd far rather be anywhere else but there . |
| 14 | The partnership had opened a new phosphorus plant in Oldbury in Worcestershire in 1851 , which Albright took over when it was dissolved at the end of 1854 . |
| 15 | " Do n't you dare walk off when I 'm talking to you , Timothy Amsterdam . |
| 16 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 17 | But the alert was called off when it was identified as a dummy empty shell . |
| 18 | He ran off when he was tackled by a passer-by . |
| 19 | Didcot 's scorer looked in with a chance of a second , and also taking the pressure off when he was put through , but instead of trying what looked a goal chance , chose to pass after sixty one minutes . |
| 20 | It seemed she had only just drifted off when she was woken by a sharp rap on the door and Nathan 's impatient voice announcing , ‘ Breakfast in five minutes ! ’ |
| 21 | Less fabric is taken up when they are placed at this angle , preventing the seamline from reducing and puckering . |
| 22 | Her ‘ Tale of two orphans ’ focuses on two young African elephants — Ndume and Malaika — who she helped bring up when they were brought to Daphne Sheldrick 's sanctuary following the massacre of the rest of their herd by poachers . |
| 23 | Sleek , swift and sophisticated ; the Jaguar supercar was snapped up when it was unveiled in 1989. 1,500 applications for a production run of just 350 . |
| 24 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 25 | have to burn it up when you 're Feels as if only just gone . |
| 26 | Throughout her hour-long visit in Barnsley , South Yorkshire , the princess looked glum but later cheered up when she was greeted by a crowd of about 2,000 people waiting outside . |
| 27 | Although children become familiar with the terms used in the story and call out when they are listening to it , the ideas involved may not necessarily have been understood . |
| 28 | Well worth checking out when you 're looking for good cooking features in a good value cooker . |
| 29 | I thought afterwards I bet that tape would run out when you 're talking to and wo n't be able to turn it over . |
| 30 | … DISAPPOINTING FOR OTHERS Drummed out Probyn was automatically ruled out when he was diagnosed by the Irish team doctor , Mick Molloy , as suffering from percussion . |