Example sentences of "when [pron] [noun sg] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 2 | She telephoned offering to help when my wife was ill and when I said there was nothing she or anyone could do , she did n't keep fussing . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Generosity , happiness and warmth abound in their presence — I so appreciate their friendship , especially when my wife was ill with leukaemia . ’ |
| 4 | We resist change because of fear of the unknown and because change can threaten our fragile sense of identity — when my self-image is indistinct , I must hold on desperately to those parts I can see , so that they survive . |
| 5 | When my mother was young she was down there . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to feel that way when my mother was alive , ’ Katherine offered . |
| 7 | When my mother was alive we knew everybody and they were all very friendly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ At one point when my mother was ill , the district nurse refused to enter her home and treat her , for fear that she would be contaminated and consequently place her other patients in danger . ’ |
| 9 | When my father is drunk and beats me , he does it because I wo n't go out and beg in the streets and bring him the money I get . |
| 10 | Childhood memories are always best , of course , and everything was so much better when my father was alive . |
| 11 | On 27 July Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons ( his first had been when my father was head boy at Thame ) , and after the summer the country accelerated into a general-election campaign . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure that you 're aware that my mother was American and that I lived in London for many years as a boy when my father was military attaché at the German Embassy . |
| 13 | I came back when my father was ill and stayed on . |
| 14 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 15 | Er I 'm one of those people that took a two year er low pay rise , to put me into the Health Service when my husband was ill . |
| 16 | AN ice-cream van driver and his assistant escaped when their vehicle was fire-bombed as they served customers in the Ballieston area of Glasgow . |
| 17 | AN ICE-CREAM van driver and his assistant escaped when their vehicle was fire-bombed as they served customers in the Ballieston area of Glasgow . |
| 18 | THE CREW of a Glasgow ice-cream van escaped serious injury when their vehicle was fire-bombed as they served in a quiet street in the Ballieston area of the city . |
| 19 | Oh , I suppose you 've been in love , probably several times , so you know how it feels to hold someone , and perhaps what I 'm feeling is what anybody feels when their life is startled and transformed . |
| 20 | EVERY parent of a teenager knows the fear when their youngster is late home . |
| 21 | I must thank the judges who did a good job for us apart from three who entered , showed up for a while and were then missing when their turn was due . |
| 22 | And since they were not " serving their time " in the way a boy did , they could therefore be paid less when their training was complete . |
| 23 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 24 | Investment firms solicit bids for a new issue at indicative prices and then , when their book is complete , price and sell the issue in a single day . |
| 25 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 26 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 27 | Although the formula means that the higher the validity the greater the return , it also means that selection tests can be worth using even when their validity is low , so long as their cost is also low . |
| 28 | They continue to mourn for years after the death or loss of their love but their loneliness was just as real when their partner was alive . |
| 29 | A.D.A.S. are once quoted as saying our land would grow nothing but Rhododendrons and Heather ( and when their advice was free , we would call them out and go away and do the opposite ) but in true pioneering spirit we have proved them all wrong ! |
| 30 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |