Example sentences of "[det] be [verb] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is compounded when it ‘ not only exists for private consumption , but is publicly displayed … [ or ] forced on the attentions of those who have not even volunteered to be voyeurs ’ ( para 7.7 ) . |
| 2 | It is true to say that Tamburlaine sets himself very few limits , and this is shown when he makes his aspirations clear by telling his friends that he wants ‘ to become immortal like the Gods ’ . |
| 3 | A Baroque façade was added in the seventeenth-century but much of this was lost when it was suggested that it was shadowing the more important church of Santa Maria beside it . |
| 4 | This was confirmed when I heard a Syrian soldier talking at a roadblock we encountered . |
| 5 | This was working when I picked it up , I 'm pretty sure it was . |
| 6 | None of this was known when they bought . |
| 7 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | At home he has chewed the door frame and part of the back door , as well as the kitchen cupboards , although these were done when he was a lot younger . |
| 9 | It 'll all be changing when she owns her flat . |
| 10 | It 'll all be forgotten when we get to the woods , you 'll see . |
| 11 | The shops will all be closed when I arrive |
| 12 | Many were drunk when they arrived . |