Example sentences of "[conj] when [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 2 | But de Gaulle never felt compelled to recognize the military hierarchy which existed before 18 June 1940 except when it suited his interests to do so . |
| 3 | On principle , Hurley refused to share information with the Germans and British , except when he needed their cooperation for controlled deliveries through Frankfurt and London , but , braving his disapproval , Coleman made a point of renewing his friendship with Hartmut Mayer , the German police officer whom he had met in Munich during the 1972 Olympics and who was now the BKA 's liaison officer on Cyprus . |
| 4 | ‘ I think we all realized that when we met him , ’ Kolchinsky said , glancing at Whitlock . |
| 5 | We knew in 1985 that when we made our preliminary announcement of our results for the previous financial year that we would become technically insolvent . |
| 6 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 7 | You will understand that when we knew what we were coming into we made some discreet enquiries . |
| 8 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 9 | I have to admit that when we started we were convinced that , like everybody else , we took a risk by investing in the tournament . |
| 10 | So that when we galloped them they did n't know , see , mm , years ago they were very particular an another man did n't li , say I had horses and you had horses , I would n't like my horses galloping with yours . |
| 11 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 12 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 13 | So that when one entered one would find the pictures talking to each other and you would enter and listen . |
| 14 | If they 'd have known that when they got they got out , |
| 15 | I thought that when they took my trousers off I would have a zip mark on the old fellow . |
| 16 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 17 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 18 | He guessed that when they made their report , probably by radio to a close in-surface unit , the MOD would finish the job and order the destruction of the Titron . |
| 19 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |
| 20 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 21 | Did n't they tell you that when they sent you to collect me ? ’ |
| 22 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 23 | ‘ Only that the house agents called it that when they advertised it . |
| 24 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 25 | I suggest that when you told my client he might get hurt you were in fact threatening him . |
| 26 | ‘ My career is precious to me — and you knew that when you married me . |
| 27 | Did they say owt and that when you ordered it , did it say that you were n't satisfied er that you 'd have postage to pay ? |
| 28 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 29 | ‘ You must have realised that when you summoned him to your hotel to break the news — ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I noticed that when you moved her arm . ’ |