Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [adv] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've reached the stage when I really do n't care what happens to me . |
| 2 | There are many times when I leave the house and go up to the range when I really do n't want to . |
| 3 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
| 4 | ‘ Slowness is beauty ’ , which struck me as very odd in 1908 ( when I certainly did not believe it ) and has stayed with me ever since — shall we say as proof that you violated British habit ; and thought of it . |
| 5 | But no-one says anything about what to do , or whether to do anything at all , when you simply do n't miss it . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps we should not be so ready to sneer at the Close Brethren who deny unbelievers access to their domestic table , when we often do not share our holy table with believers . |
| 7 | The real problems can arise when they just do n't turn up . |
| 8 | Oh yes , yes , I 'm m , as as I say , I I I can understand all this , but I I I am not sure how you can persuade people who do n't somehow , share your opinion with values ethical values , human values , er , to live within that society , and to obey the rules that you would like to set , when they really do n't observe those rules . |
| 9 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 10 | There was little point in appealing to his better nature when he clearly did n't have one . |
| 11 | But how can I convince David , when he obviously does n't want to see me again ? she thought . |
| 12 | Mr Evans listened in bulging-eyed silence , and when he still did n't speak , even when she had finished , she thought he had n't taken it in . |
| 13 | And when he still did n't reply , she said , ‘ If you know something , for God 's sake tell me . ’ |
| 14 | And when he still did n't say anything she went up to him and shouted into his face , ‘ You think I 'm a slut and a common thief ! |