Example sentences of "be [adj] when [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 2 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 3 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 4 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 5 | ‘ I was n't meaning to be rude when I said you had n't changed . ’ |
| 6 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 7 | Grattan 's Parliament in Ireland , furthermore , can never have been sovereign or , if it was , then the Parliament of Great Britain itself ceased to be sovereign when it established it . |
| 8 | Their rows centred on his failure to be available when she needed his support rather than her ability to be physically present but absent in every other way . |
| 9 | ( Elizabeth said that she was not quite sure whether she ought to be pleased when I told her this ; but I am sure she was pleased . ) |
| 10 | Chamberlain and I were inclined to be impatient when we saw him so reluctant to take the only course which seemed to us possible . ’ |
| 11 | She had not appeared to be surprised when he told her what he intended to do , nor had she put up any resistance . |