Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do I say when we 're out of hay ? ’ |
| 2 | On the other , that he was not forgotten-that there were pockets of admirers who still cherished his books throughout the long years when they were out of print . |
| 3 | Once the child has mastered ‘ Dada ’ , this response will be more consistently reinforced when the referent ‘ Daddy ’ is present compared to when he is out of sight . |
| 4 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
| 5 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 6 | He also saw that by inviting Nixon when he was out of office with few prospects of getting back into it , Ceauşescu struck a chord with the future US President , who would remain loyal to his friend in need . |
| 7 | She thought she would take the statement tomorrow or the next day , when he was out of hospital . |
| 8 | It 's cost-effective and lets people know what a car does when it 's out of control . |
| 9 | In fact , there were only two short periods , of ten months in 1924 and of about two years and three months from 1929 and 1931 when it was out of power . |