Example sentences of "[adj] when [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not going to be any different when they 're in the White House . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You know , you were quite different when you were with Godfrey . ’ |
| 3 | Dipak ( S ) : How did you know whether the planes were English or German when you were in the air-raid shelter ? |
| 4 | Her father 's habitual mild-manneredness , which usually protected him from responding , became brittle and porous when he was in contact with his daughter : Miranda could see that he reacted to Xanthe 's silkiness as if she were n't a clear , sparkling water , but a fiery solvent that he , for all his well-preened feathers , could not resist . |
| 5 | Some horses become excited and upset if something goes a bit wrong when they are in harness , such as chains or ropes becoming entangled around their feet . |
| 6 | Did anything ever go wrong when you were on watch ? |
| 7 | We all talk like this when we 're off duty . |
| 8 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 9 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |
| 10 | Occasionally she has behaved like this when I am with her , and my mother out . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 12 | You 're very unpleasant when you 're like that boy ! |
| 13 | It was not fear , for she was never afraid when she was with Ben , but something else . |
| 14 | I know it 'll be easier when you 're in Fulham , blah , blah , blah , but erm pressure ! |
| 15 | No , well but er it , it , it 's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you 're in another person 's house |
| 16 | But you 're not sensible when you 're in love ! |
| 17 | You 're not sensible when you 're in love ! |
| 18 | Well it 's one thing to t to talk amongst your friends I suppose , and another one to be you know spontaneous when you 're in front of a huge crowd of people . |
| 19 | ‘ You know I 'm never bored when I 'm with you . |
| 20 | Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one . |
| 21 | The old adage that the Irish are at their most dangerous when they are at their lowest ebb has been consigned to the dustbin as a forgotten tradition . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was dangerous when we were in Germany . |
| 23 | ‘ You work where you are sent , but you are nervous when you are in certain areas . |
| 24 | A lot of people are prejudiced against mares because they assume they are all temperamental when they are in season ; this is n't necessarily so . |
| 25 | Anyway , we do n't eat much when we 're in heat anyway do you ? |
| 26 | We have some wry wry smiles from some of the older people er in the group here because they er did n't get much when they were at the formative stages of their careers . |
| 27 | He looked like a Fred to me , being short , shaggy , pimply and with a big nose , and we were all delighted when he was on night duty with us because he then got the job of hauling the heavy haybox into the building and ladling out large dollops of this unidentifiable meal onto our plates . |
| 28 | But is it so easy when you 're on someone else 's patch ? |
| 29 | It is n't easy when you 're in a single room jammed up with a double bed , and the dump is decorated as carelessly as the inside of a rarely used cupboard . |
| 30 | A misrepresentation by the accused that the law was such and such when it was in fact different , and by that misrepresentation he obtained property , will lead to a conviction of obtaining property by deception . |