Example sentences of "[pron] 's [adj] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm so cautious or adventurous , I think most people do n't , I mean I 've got adventurous on my form but it never gets ticked , because nobody 's adventurous when they retire . |
| 2 | This is perhaps one of the most common babysitting standbys and can work out well , if you know the teenager to be responsible and she 's confident when it comes to being left alone with children . |
| 3 | I 'll know she 's right when I find her . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 5 | She 's not very attractive when she 's done up but she 's attractive when she 's like sweating it out in her cycling shorts |
| 6 | Everything 's easy when you 've never done it before . |
| 7 | No , I just started a part-time job and my boyfriend 's , come and watch them and he 's helping me cleaning the house and everything 's clean when I come home . |
| 8 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 9 | Yeah , it 's annoying when they say they 're gon na ring is n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 's fantastic when you think that a lot of people reckon this whole society 's evil from top to bottom , ’ says Jack . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's awful when you lose a pet , but do n't forget that Brownies smile in time of trouble , and that 's just when the smile is most needed . |
| 12 | I 'm I 'm stuck for a word I 've I 've asked Angela , I ca n't explain to her what I mean it 's awful when you , when you got a word at the back of your mind it 's one of those words where ki , a kid ham anybody , any person can er , realise that something needs doing and do it without being told to do it . |
| 13 | Oh it 's awful when they do n't when they wo n't do that is n't it ? |
| 14 | And it 's awful when you think all of those trees you can cut down |
| 15 | It 's better when you send me to my room when I 'm naughty . |
| 16 | I think I prefer to get it like that and , instead of having a whole onion it 's better when , they 're , the big ones like they are bit too big are n't they ? |
| 17 | it 's better when we do n't where our |
| 18 | It 's better when you sit up straight is n't it ? |
| 19 | It 's better when Deborah 's only started school , so |
| 20 | Yeah I mean it 's better when you took that one from down there was n't it ? |
| 21 | It 's worse when and you go . |
| 22 | It 's worse when you do n't die . |
| 23 | And it 's worse when you 've got children to cope with as well . |
| 24 | it 's worse when you 've got |
| 25 | As she put it , ‘ as long as it 's warm when the children get home , I 'm not bothered about myself ( Ritchie , 1990 , p. 36 ) . |
| 26 | It 's strange when people go through life lost to each other . |
| 27 | ‘ I really think it 's terrible when anybody dies and people break-in — it 's almost like grave robbing . |
| 28 | It 's terrible when they start laughing ! |
| 29 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 30 | ‘ I tried to , but it 's hot when you bite it , it burns your teeth and your tongue . |