Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 2 | The simplest test for a squint , apart from observation , is to shine a bright light in the child 's eyes when she 's looking straight ahead . |
| 3 | ‘ We talked about fun and cars when I was beginning to think they were no longer synonymous ’ |
| 4 | He was later slammed by thousands of Liverpool supporters when he was pictured kissing Karen on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 5 | And how could you buy your kid New Balance trainers when everyone is wearing Reeboks right now ? |
| 6 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 7 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 8 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 9 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 10 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 11 | This success followed some ten years after his first stage appearance at the age of 19 months when he was pushed on stage by an enthusiastic aunt to dance . |
| 12 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 13 | As a centre of culture , and a meeting place of civilizations , Cordoba remained vitally important through the days when the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born there in the twelfth century and the Arab philosopher Averroes lived there in the thirteenth ; as a representative of a medieval city it is as eccentric as Palermo — indeed far more so ; for the cathedral at its centre is a mosque slightly disguised ; and the beauty and immense and impressive size of the mosque are constant reminders to the modern visitor that Christendom was a poor relation to Islam , perhaps in many senses , in the period between the eighth and the tenth centuries when it was built . |
| 14 | ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action . |
| 15 | Well now , Arnold Thomas will eat his harsh words when he 's living in the lap o ’ luxury . ’ |
| 16 | Remember that if a child can spell successfully most words when he 's writing , it 's a waste of your time to be teaching him : teach the ones who need it . |
| 17 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 18 | Welcome back.Doctors say a four-year-old girl who suffered dreadful head wounds when she was savaged by two great danes may soon be completely healed . |
| 19 | erm They have had periods when they were prosecuted , then they dropped out of fashion , now they have recently been revived over the last twenty years by prosecutors . |
| 20 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 21 | Ben , who 's fifteen , had just started work at Stars Newsagents when he was approached by the gunman . |
| 22 | Each Holy Roman Emperor , the supreme example of an elected monarch , had to accept the same kind of limitations when he was chosen by the imperial electors . |
| 23 | The engine may be seen on Sundays and on some Saturdays when it is operated . |
| 24 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 25 | ‘ That was in the days when they were laying tracks on the ice ; in the days , too , when you could get married out there . ’ |
| 26 | Well , you 'll have a chance in a couple of days when it 's done again . |
| 27 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 28 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 29 | Those were ambitious days when it was thought the Swindon Robins would go from strength to strength . |
| 30 | Because in in the early days when it was invented I mean people were actually embossing the dots on by hand individually erm so er anyway yeah so , yeah that , that would be excellent , yeah , mm . |