Example sentences of "[subord] when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black players have to endure endless taunts except when one scores a goal for the hooligan 's team . |
| 2 | ‘ My clothes have always stayed on except when I have a bath , ’ she laughed . |
| 3 | He is , and always has been , a true sportsman , smiling , chivalrous , gentle ( except when he has a bat in his hands ) , and possessed of the genuine amateur 's clean outlook . |
| 4 | ‘ Although when I approach a part I link it to someone I 've observed in real life , with drawing this observation is a much closer examination . |
| 5 | On few occasions has it shown less moral scruple than when it made a deal with Brezhnev to dispose of the Soviet gold . |
| 6 | Melinda says she can sell her services 40 per cent cheaper than when she had a showroom . |
| 7 | Maybe never more so than when she accompanied a group of cadets training for officership on a ten-day campaign in remote rural areas . |
| 8 | Cos when you have a bath all the , you know , put the fan on and all the steam 'll go out , rather cling to the walls and that . |
| 9 | I ca n't run a cake stall Gilly cos when I got a book a someone erm wants |
| 10 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 11 | but Jim makes the point he said that if if if when you sign a declaration you say |
| 12 | Okay so sometimes it helps if when you see a word you pronounce it to yourself . |
| 13 | And here , too , because when we need a model , you will be our model . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 15 | Well because when you shine a light on to a board only half of it is gon na be facing only half of it is gon na be facing . |
| 16 | ‘ The Dana 700 has an offset neck , because when you play a bass , the neck normally angles away from your playing hand ; with the Dana , the neck is offset on the guitar body and angles straight at your playing hand , making this the most logical , easy to play bass ever … ’ |
| 17 | But the reason I 've got this up is because when you do an area select it selects the board outline . |
| 18 | What are we after when we burn a fuel ? |
| 19 | She is right , she does n't , though when I catch a glimpse of her left arm , her bruises are pink and prominent , crawling the length of it like squashed insects . |
| 20 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 21 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 22 | Saddam , a polished television performer , made considerable use of the medium for propaganda purposes , as when he conducted a conversation on camera with a British child caught up in the war who now found himself a ‘ guest ’ of the Iraqi regime . |
| 23 | We have already seen that you will not be able to rely upon employment law rights if , in reality , you are not an employee or if your contract is unenforceable , as when it involves an element of illegality . |
| 24 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 25 | Essentially , this either bungs the whole output through the effects loop ( good if you 're using EQs , gates or compressors ) or else splits the output in two , sending one half past the effects loop and straight to the power stage ( best , apparently , for when you have a multi-processor in the loop ) . |
| 26 | The higher rates given by Young must be considered unusual , for when he visited a silk mill in Sheffield , which like the more famous example at Derby offered a rare chance of factory employment , he judged the women 's earnings of 5 to 6s ( 25-30p ) a week to be " very good wages , much more than by spinning wool in any part of the kingdom " . |
| 27 | Because what the tendency is that people feel that that bearings when when you say a bearing , you mean a steel ball . |