Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] when [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clash is absolute and stable when they cross at 90° . |
| 2 | " I thought you frivolous , malicious and heartless when I lived with you . |
| 3 | My sister-in-law answered the telephone , in the voice which , whether she means it or not , always sounds abrasive and resentful when she speaks to me . |
| 4 | I know how much you like your bed , was it nice and on , was it nice and warm when you got in bed last night ? |
| 5 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 6 | Plenty of clever , talented children seem to make slow progress at learning skills which they know their parents care about — like reading — while showing remarkable confidence and daring when it comes to the things their parents ignore , like swinging upside down , or building complicated models out of Lego . |
| 7 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 8 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 9 | Brothers Sefic and Safet Alic and father-of three Ramo Besic were exhausted and ill when they arrived at Stansted in September last year . |
| 10 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 11 | They all rave about Muddy , Charlie Patton and Son House — singers that came out of the same patch in Coahoma County — but they turn all reticent and confused when it comes to the act that 's outlived and outsold them all . |
| 12 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 13 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 14 | She 's right at the other end of the room and is deaf and blind when she has to be . " |
| 15 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 16 | It was that the Pope grew angry and anti-Galileo when he learned of the events of 1616 , of which he had never been informed . |
| 17 | I mean , it will be , perhaps where they try and place the mortgage for you but erm I w I bet you they wo n't recommend anything but Legal and General when it comes to actually , you know , covering your mortgage . |
| 18 | Why was it that this man was such a pleasant and knowledgeable companion , and yet so hard and ruthless when it came to getting his own way ? |
| 19 | Reaction times should be fast if the target phoneme occurred after the recognition point , and slow when it occurred before the recognition point . |
| 20 | You ca n't afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to your handbag … |
| 21 | You can afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to just about every other accessory , but a bag says more about you than all the rest put together . |
| 22 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 23 | My landlady does n't spend nearly as much time doing housework , but her place is always clean and nice when you go into it . |
| 24 | He was so very stubborn and single-minded when he went after something he wanted . |
| 25 | Sarah describes her work as stressful , frustrating and maddening — but thrilling when she stumbles across someone like Kate . |