Example sentences of "when [pron] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone is prepared , you call out one of the words . |
| 2 | When everyone was served , Zak the investigator along through Scene Two , disclosing the details of the attempted kidnap of one of the horses and leaving a tantalizing question mark in the shape of which one ? |
| 3 | When everyone was seated the Royal party arrived . |
| 4 | He came at dusk , as soon as he dared , when everyone was gone . |
| 5 | ‘ I must say I 'd have been happier , ’ said Rose , when everyone was suited and they had all sunk into their chairs , ‘ if Viola had kept away . |
| 6 | When everyone was occupied she would waft into the room and over to the cradle , to peer quietly into it and then , satisfied that the baby was safe and well , to slip in behind the door . |
| 7 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 8 | It is awful to think so Elsie I know but I am sure some of them felt cheated when nothing was found . |
| 9 | ‘ I will never stir from your side , when I am suffered to be near you . |
| 10 | Does ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ mean ‘ I am experiencing something , something an artist could put on paper , which I have found I experience when I am prepared , by the text , to apply the figure in certain ways ? ’ |
| 11 | My recurring thought , he wrote : that the big glass will only start to breathe when I am gone . |
| 12 | She suffered from terminal consumption and , before her death said , referring to the priests , ‘ when I am gone — they will get you , and then I shall see you no more . ’ |
| 13 | When I am gone , think of your country . |
| 14 | When I am gone say nothing about Dr Carey — speak about Dr Carey 's Saviour . ’ |
| 15 | Now I know that when I am gone , you will be watching over my son 's welfare . ’ |
| 16 | He will suffer when I am gone . |
| 17 | ‘ Who will look after all this when I am gone ? ’ he asks . |
| 18 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 19 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 20 | I thought I must join some service which is considered sufficiently hazardous , because when I am conscripted I can say I do n't wish to fight but I am ready to do my part in National Service . |
| 21 | When I am called to meet my Maker face to Face , I hope my doctor helps me do it gently , instead of striving to avoid the issue . |
| 22 | When I am asked to think of a happy London , I think of this place in July and of my lazy pondmates : Kelly and Simone and Jo , the acidhouse DJ . |
| 23 | " Do n't argue with me , for I get very angry when I am crossed , " snapped the old woman . |
| 24 | Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her … |
| 25 | It is only later , when I am faced with real life , that the theories no longer seem so reasonable . |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 27 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 28 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 29 | Oh , yes , I comb their hair and , when I am finished , I sing to them . |
| 30 | When I am finished , everything is in its place , and there are places for everything . |