Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | She treats them like a pair of toy dogs , throwing them little treats when they 're good to make them more dependent on her . ’ |
| 2 | It makes me so cross when I see so much imported fruit and vegetables in the shops when we have as good , if not better English produce on hand . |
| 3 | ‘ I only drink when Sir John does , ’ Athelstan mockingly replied . |
| 4 | ‘ During the day I only paint when he 's asleep , and sometimes for the extra hour if he 's happy playing beside me . |
| 5 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 6 | I 'm reading him the Greek myths at bedtime and I just hope when we get to Oedipus the penny will drop . |
| 7 | Well I just keep when I sit down , I 'm tired all the while and I 've got no appetite whatsoever . |
| 8 | That 's what I just said when he went up there you see . |
| 9 | I 've done , did nothing different to what I normally do when I |
| 10 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 11 | Saying Grace is not always a prelude to conventional manners in Free Kirk households as I once found when asked to offer the Grace in a cottage in Point , Lewis , in which the great aunt of a friend lived . |
| 12 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 13 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |
| 14 | I hated rugby but I always played when they wanted me to because I was really fast . |
| 15 | They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list . |
| 16 | And I always listen when I get crossed lines . |
| 17 | ‘ I always cry when I 'm happy . |
| 18 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 19 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 20 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 21 | I always cringe when I see a lorry like that coming on the road when you ca n't see past it |
| 22 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 23 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 24 | My wife and I both dive when I am at home and we have a number of friends who run dive charter operations in the Keys . |
| 25 | I nearly died when three weeks later , |
| 26 | Judi , who was in the US interviewing Hollywood stars , said : ‘ I nearly died when this lady kept saying I was getting married . ’ |
| 27 | I nearly died when I saw them . |
| 28 | Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift . |
| 29 | I nearly said , I nearly said when you were er |
| 30 | I nearly said when you wanted er , when he were on about when I were saying your lass is big enough cos she is well built int she ? |