Example sentences of "[vb -s] when [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 2 | But then , I 'll hand it to Guy — he 's mega -successful at getting what he wants when he wants it ? ’ |
| 3 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 4 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 5 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 6 | So far we have looked at what happens when someone loses something significant . |
| 7 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 8 | Yes , but it hurts when he turns his head . |
| 9 | He has no intention of following Esau to Seir , as he reveals when he leaves his brother and travels on towards the west . |
| 10 | And I thought Grandson Richard was some special person and he turned out to be a human who sings when he wets himself — ‘ |
| 11 | Compare it to the way a bobby pounds his beat or to the leisurely stroll Prince Philip adopts when he follows his wife on a walkabout . |
| 12 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |
| 13 | It is not unlike the feeling a good scientist gets when he senses he is within range of something interesting . |
| 14 | Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts . |
| 15 | Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street . |
| 16 | He speaks when he has something to say , I 'll talk about anything with anyone . |
| 17 | All that changes when she meets her match in Doug . |
| 18 | When leaving the hospital , parents are loaned a rear-facing car seat for the baby , which the midwife collects when she makes her first home visit . |
| 19 | What one means when one calls something ‘ white ’ , according to Mill , is that one 's present sensation resembles a past one . |
| 20 | Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ . |
| 21 | This being so , when a person says that he feels a pain in his foot , what he means is not anything like what he means when he says he feels a pin in his foot . |
| 22 | Yeah but I know what he means when he says he ca n't and I said to him I said ooh I feel a bit out of sorts this morning , sort of I do n't know how you must feel having to go to work . |
| 23 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 24 | And the Je , the Philippine jailer , he cries out a question which , I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with , but he just cries out , what must I do to be saved ? |
| 25 | That is what the Labour party means when it says it wants councils to raise more of the money that they spend . |
| 26 | Ooh you want to tell her when he goes when he leaves me in here with this door unlocked ! |
| 27 | He almost laughs when he sees what it really is — a small lawn , with a rockery and kitchen garden beyond . |
| 28 | Kylie laughs when she recalls herself dancing around the Minogue living room singing ‘ Greased Lightning ’ for family and friends . |
| 29 | If the situation is basically stable , the drama then begins when something occurs which has the potential to destabilise it . |
| 30 | It 's like the sound a child makes when it confronts its own … |