Example sentences of "when [pron] be [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was rash of me to promise when I 'm constantly so strapped for cash . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Doubt , when you 're generally so decided ? |
| 3 | Only then , when she was no longer expressing the yearning for him , did he learn of his own need . |
| 4 | And it 's foolish of him to have it when we 're all about to go into production and we 're so tired . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When we 're so perfectly matched , the duration is likely to suit us equally perfectly . |
| 6 | When we are so closely associated it becomes a bit of a thing , the two of us together . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 8 | Drugs often make people feel they 're coping , when they 're really not coping at all . |
| 9 | ‘ To invade those poor people in Poland when they 're only just getting over the last war . ’ |
| 10 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 11 | ‘ So many people come to our clinic complaining that they have greasy hair , when they are simply not washing it frequently enough , ’ says trichologist Glenn Lyons . |
| 12 | BELOW Stone walls were often used as field boundaries , but when they are no longer maintained and collapse , they can quickly become overgrown with vegetation and hidden from view . |
| 13 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 14 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 15 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 16 | Cut them when they are about half open , but not right down to the ground ; be sure to leave at least two sets of leaves on the stem . |
| 17 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 18 | So those who persistently demanded succour when they were no longer entitled to it and irritatingly pricked the conscience of the rich were particularly apt for denunciation as witches . |
| 19 | When they were so intimately joined , how would she not know if he were cheating on her ? |
| 20 | The next thing he knew , the Thames Valley Police were calling the landlords as prosecution witnesses in " Operation Major " — dubbed " The Sting " by a tabloid newspaper — after the police had arrested hundreds of their tenants ( all claimants ) for allegedly defrauding the DHSS , by supposedly drawing social security to pay their rent when they were actually not paying any . |
| 21 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 22 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 23 | on the day itself , there is not only the opening of the presents , and the party , but also the aftermath when it 's all over to provide a fitting finale to the day 's activities . |
| 24 | First , any new shopping development should not only respect the character of the town but should also , as far as possible , be reversible — that is , relatively easily removed when it is no longer needed . |
| 25 | The sufferer has to learn to live in reality , blaming self rather than others for his or her own problems and recognising that unconditional love could only be received when it is equally freely given . |
| 26 | What price then that metaphysical guarantee of social differentiation when it is so easily abolished in the confusion it was supposed to preempt and render impossible ? |
| 27 | Since drugs are costly , it might be desirable to give the drug when it is less readily removed by the kidneys . |
| 28 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |
| 29 | In about 1935 lie came to Euston Road School when it was just about starting and in no time at all he became a really competent painter in that way . |
| 30 | Michele spotted it when it was just about to sink and was fool enough to go in fully clothed . ’ |