Example sentences of "they be [adj] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are free only when they are electing members of parliament . |
| 2 | They are old enough when they leave school … |
| 3 | Five minutes later they were two up when the home defence got into an awful tangle and Denver was at hand to shoot home . |
| 4 | However , they were effective only when injected , and something better was desirable . |
| 5 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 6 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 7 | They were happy enough when Leroy May ran in to make it 1-0 against Darlington on saturday but that was it . |
| 8 | They were good-humoured enough when turned away . |
| 9 | They were strict enough when I was in , when I flying , never mind about anything else . |