Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you , I mean , we 'll turn this off put that on when we get to near the check out shall we ? |
| 2 | I hope you 're planning to bring that down when I got sunburnt you you thought that you 'd been cheated did n't you ? |
| 3 | Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget . |
| 4 | Mm yeah I like that So when they picking his car up then ? |
| 5 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 6 | Low interest rates are inflationary only when they coincide with an overheating economy as they did in 1987–8 . |
| 7 | Lydia realised this afresh when she came downstairs the following morning . |
| 8 | Particularly s this so when they ignore the warnings of their advisors on matters like budget and timescale . |
| 9 | He picked up the ‘ Fabulous Forman ’ title at Oxford for his flamboyant dress sense , although he toned this down when he entered Parliament in 1976 in a by-election . |
| 10 | I 'm gon na have a little rest from this in when I 've done this |
| 11 | You did n't spend half enough when you got the chance , ’ he said when he saw the bill . |
| 12 | They are old enough when they leave school … |
| 13 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 14 | It startled her that he should know this much when she had tried so hard to be circumspect in making her enquiries . |
| 15 | Heat pumps are economical only when they exploit a low temperature energy source costing little or nothing . |
| 16 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 17 | We shall explore this below when we come to consider the " logical " words in English , and , or , if then , not , the quantifiers and the modals . |
| 18 | Stress becomes harmful only when it exceeds our ability to cope with the situation , or when it continues unrelieved over a prolonged period . |
| 19 | The consensus it that by four or five strokes it is the toughest course in either county because the battle is only half over when you 've found the green . |
| 20 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 21 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |
| 22 | I mean , it 's funny like when you burp because you get , embarrass you like . |
| 23 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 24 | Mm it 'll be about five to half past when he leaves I should think by the time he 's cleared up . |
| 25 | It 's quite funny though when he kicks his legs and he went he goes ooh wah ! |
| 26 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 27 | And I only found this out when I went in and talked to the station manager , and he looked very confused . |
| 28 | I 'd better go and get me crisps I 'll sort this out when I come back . |
| 29 | Alright then , and we 're sorting this out when she 's gone out , when it 's gone out , but we 're going to think about this eh doing things underhanded right ? |
| 30 | It 's exciting though when you get deep snow is n't it for a little while , yes ? |