Example sentences of "and [adj] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car , and she felt mud oozing over the top of her shoes . |
| 2 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 3 | He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived . |
| 4 | Matthew Jores was left blind and deaf when he contracted meningitis 5 years ago . |
| 5 | Sarah seemed quiet and upset when we saw him off anyway . ’ |
| 6 | The clash is absolute and stable when they cross at 90° . |
| 7 | And for the thousands of chatline users who will be left high and dry when their service shuts down in April , Dr Derek Milne predicts a further search for support . |
| 8 | His manner had been exaggeratedly polite and impersonal when they had opened the mail together earlier . |
| 9 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |
| 10 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 11 | Pluralist accounts of the Japanese state for example underestimate the ambiguity of the division between public and private when they imply that individual rights in a liberal democracy confine the scope of the state to exclusively public spheres . |
| 12 | Heather Calzini spent thousands of pounds looking for Milliegrey , worth around £60,000 and pregnant when she was taken from her stable in the dead of night . |
| 13 | He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council . |
| 14 | Some words , indeed , have stories attached to them , like psych- ; others , hard to spell , like sword , gnat , knight or parliament , the days of the week and the months of the year , become accessible and memorable when their stories are known . |
| 15 | " I thought you frivolous , malicious and heartless when I lived with you . |
| 16 | The Wimbledon Courts seem small and friendly when you 're actually in them , and the finals , though tense tennis were terrific tennis . |
| 17 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 18 | Although it is most obvious and acute when there is an actual death ( and we go on to describe reactions to the death of a partner in the next chapter ) , some mourning is appropriate to the many minor deaths which occur in the course of married life . |
| 19 | Her father 's habitual mild-manneredness , which usually protected him from responding , became brittle and porous when he was in contact with his daughter : Miranda could see that he reacted to Xanthe 's silkiness as if she were n't a clear , sparkling water , but a fiery solvent that he , for all his well-preened feathers , could not resist . |
| 20 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 21 | Do n't be persuaded to be safe and sensible when you would rather be dashing and adventurous in your choice . |
| 22 | And it is often at its most powerful and poetic when it is simple and direct — indeed , excessive complexity takes away from its effectiveness . |
| 23 | Frank Chapman , an executive council member of the EEPTU electricians ' union , was hissed and slow-handclapped when he asserted that scaling down nuclear power would put a brake on economic development in third world countries . |
| 24 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 25 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 26 | My sister-in-law answered the telephone , in the voice which , whether she means it or not , always sounds abrasive and resentful when she speaks to me . |
| 27 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 28 | Perhaps that sometimes Katell is too nice and unstuffy when she should be insisting we see and hear her as special ; too conversational when she should be more confrontational . |
| 29 | He laughed suddenly and all the tight irritation in his face melted away , so that , as usual , Robyn felt confused and foolish because being angry with him was so difficult and pointless when his mouth curved into that wonderful smile and his eyes sparkled so . |
| 30 | One evening , quite late , when an old girl friend was staying , I was sitting cross-legged in my Oriental cradle feeling wise and Confucian when my friend could stand it no longer . |