Example sentences of "be [adj] when they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 2 | Most women had tried to become pregnant for two or three years , and most ( 412 , 82% ) had never been pregnant when they entered the study . |
| 3 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 4 | I have found that most people have no idea how they behave in a group , and are upset when they watch their behaviour in groups on video replays . |
| 5 | ‘ They are alive when they go down , ’ she said . |
| 6 | No-one I know is proud to admit they are German when they travel abroad . |
| 7 | People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre . |
| 8 | Interpretations of statute are not unfamiliar to commercial auditors ; but they are unfamiliar when they involve overtly political questions . |
| 9 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 10 | Women are old when they reach 60 and men are old at 65 . |
| 11 | They 're friendly when they know you , but not when they 're in pig . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think they 're pretty when they stand up like this ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ For some reason people think they 're invincible when they climb into a car . |
| 14 | Many of our competitors have an ‘ under ten items ’ till , and many of our customers are confused when they have a shopping trolley . |
| 15 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |
| 16 | Most PAT dogs are mature when they commence work . |
| 17 | Research into reducing stress has indicated that three factors play an important role as far as managers are concerned when they come to make decisions : |
| 18 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 19 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 20 | Such are the smooth , easy driving qualities of the big-engined Corrado ( the same engine is also available in the VW Golf and Vento saloons ) that I suspect that this is the sort of car that drivers will appreciate when they own it , be sorry when they sell it , and describe it for years as the finest car they ever owned . |
| 21 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now not only believes he will take England to the World Cup finals but that the draw against Brazil shows what might be possible when they get there . |
| 22 | They know they will be different when they come back … for the better . ’ |
| 23 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 24 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
| 25 | ‘ They must always be careful when they adjust and react to television that they do n't change the nature of their sport . |
| 26 | From the word go the eventual winners from Sligo/Mullingar knew that their task would not be easy when they encountered Dundalk . |
| 27 | And the boxes would even be warm when they landed at Wyre down in the hold of the steamer . |
| 28 | The impression that everyone had been industrious until their arrival , and would be industrious when they had gone , grew stronger . |
| 29 | And regulators , investors and customers will quickly learn to be cautious when they interpret volatile asset values . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I do n't and I do n't want to , ’ she said crossly , ‘ I 'll be glad when they 've gone . |