Example sentences of "when [pron] be [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't come when you 're wanted , and now you come when you 're not wanted ! |
| 2 | And , he says , when you 're not understood by anybody , you respond by misunderstanding them back . |
| 3 | Oh Shane , who went in the lounge when you 're not meant to ? |
| 4 | That insignificant little tickle that develops into an eye-watering , throat-gripping , lung-bursting agony when you 're not allowed to let it out . |
| 5 | You pay for procedural costs which include postage , telephoning , the preparation of duplicate invoices and further statements , the writing of letters , the arranging of standard follow-ups and for all the other internal procedures necessary when you are not paid . |
| 6 | The inescapable subservience of the female is ratified even when she is not manoeuvred as an object of adoration or spite : But the effect of this fifteenth-century carol in providing a reminder that the Incarnation was realised through a woman , is to put a warning shot across the bows of those who exploit the daughters of Eve . |
| 7 | When she was not steeped in work she was warm and gregarious , almost as though she was ensuring a queue of admirers to buy up her next batch of paintings . |
| 8 | When she was not engaged in company work , she was overseeing the redesigning and restocking of the gardens , which she loved , and , of course , planning the decoration of the house . |
| 9 | The post-war years brought nagging doubts for Mary , when she was not surrounded by her now four healthy children . |
| 10 | He would have to appear now , would n't he — when she was n't prepared ? |
| 11 | It was also observed that he was fairly cool with the little Hoflin girl , who seemed to be mooning miserably about the theatre with a pale face , even when she was n't needed . |
| 12 | When she was n't required for her scene in the court room of Alexandria she was fetching and carrying and dabbing calamine lotion on the shoulders of John Harbour who , earlier in the day , had been broiled pink as a lobster by inexpertly using a sun-lamp . |
| 13 | We were confused and anxious when we were not understood . |
| 14 | So in the past , when we were not shielded from moonlight , it may have had an effect . |
| 15 | when we could n't , when , when we were not allowed to in the States . |
| 16 | ‘ We were both more at ease , I think , when we were not required to hide our mistrust for one another . |
| 17 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 18 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 19 | From the restaurant Oh my God up need any matches when they 're not lost ha Dave so they never offered Lee any |
| 20 | I mean sometimes medicines are certainly prescribed and bought when they are n't needed . |
| 21 | So people often switch off their hearing aids when they are not wanted . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the fact that he sees them as two distinct individuals does not necessarily mean that they exist as two distinct individuals when they are not perceived . |
| 23 | ‘ Old people commonly are despised , ’ observed Richard Steele , ‘ especially when they are not supported with good estates ; ’ while another commented in 1621 how , in contrast to the common ‘ pleasure in infants ’ shown by women , ‘ old people are burdensome to all ; neither their talk nor their company is acceptable . ’ |
| 24 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 25 | Suppose , for example , that the police seek to remove a person 's clothing , or to take fingerprints when they are not authorised to do so , or persistently seek to question a person who makes it plain that he has no wish to answer , or seek to enter a house when they have no search warrant or a defective one . |
| 26 | The ‘ underclass ’ is what the working poor become when they are not employed . |
| 27 | Qaddafi , however , thinks of nations as permanently active groups in continual session , not disappearing from practice when they are not needed . |
| 28 | But the most important saving could be made by persuading people to turn off lights when they are not needed — either by time switches or by well-designed panels which allow people to select easily the amount of light they need . |
| 29 | Elders are often denied the status of ordinary adulthood when they are not encouraged to discuss how they see their situation . |
| 30 | Scripts can be thought of as slot-and-filler structures , in which the slots have default values so that events can be inferred even when they are not mentioned explicitly in a text . |