Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb base] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I wake I think of her . |
| 2 | ‘ Save it for when I take you gambling in Las Vegas , ’ juggling this chance in his head with the unthinkable odds that he would never see her again . |
| 3 | ‘ Now when I say he believed in England I do n't mean your thatched cottages and warm beer he did n't think the place was cute , not just his grandfather 's birthplace . |
| 4 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 5 | The cursed little white stick of wood always did annoy me , and when I see it domineering over the whole orchestra , music departs from me … |
| 6 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 7 | Small wonder , too , when you hear what happened to it . |
| 8 | When you ask what happens at national level , well what happens at national level in these industries is that we have dozens and dozens of requests for headquarters conferences each year . |
| 9 | How did he go to pieces , when you say he went to pieces ? |
| 10 | Just give us a shout when you want us to move into the dining-room . ’ |
| 11 | Why should you take her advice when you have me to turn to ? ’ |
| 12 | When you do it jumping in the hall you 'll have to go , we 'll have you first number one , two , three , four , five |
| 13 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 14 | Er and in the South Midlands ' section , I think it is erm towards Coventry and Nuneaton , we have got erm I can even remember the name of the Guild it 's we 've got a lot of younger women in there and these are younger women that , it 's very , I 'm very pleased to see them and when you see them go to the rostrum you can , you know they really are , they seem as if they 're a revival of the old camp because we , we 've got to campaign you see and but you , you try , I mean I 'm getting beyond it really myself and yet you see , you try and whip up erm an aging movement it you , you want younger women you see . |
| 15 | And when you see them racing on the television ! |
| 16 | Not when you see her come in the hall on a Monday morning at eight o'clock having done three hours . |
| 17 | And when you see her talking to people you wonder what they can be talking about . |
| 18 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |
| 19 | What I saw that evening may be important when you consider what happened on the night of his death . |
| 20 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 21 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 22 | Well may I forget that I am your servant when you forget what belongs to a master . |
| 23 | G : When you need something to rhyme with Sandra Dee . |
| 24 | When we train we go through many moves and set pieces but we also have a joke . |
| 25 | When we hear them bellow on the |
| 26 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 27 | when we come we come on duty . |
| 28 | When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control . |
| 29 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 30 | But when they die they sink to the bottom , taking the nutrients with them . |