Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] when they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most expect a lot more than that when they sell their bodies . ’ |
| 2 | Corbett urged him to keep quiet and was more than relieved when they entered the narrow , winding , rutted streets of Leith and made their way to the small market square . |
| 3 | Corbett , cold and hungry , muttered his replies and was more than pleased when they reached Queensferry . |
| 4 | Were the guests more embarrassed than amused when they overheard Bo-Bo 's pathetic chatter ? |
| 5 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 6 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 7 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 8 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |
| 9 | Clients often report that they stop seeing themselves as abnormal when they meet others in a similar situation . |
| 10 | In other words , populations become generally eligible for management as deviant when they disturb , hinder , or call into question … capitalist modes of appropriating the product of human labour … the social conditions under which capitalist production takes place … patterns of distribution and consumption … the process of socialization for productive and non-productive roles … and … the ideology which supports the functioning of capitalist society . ’ |