Example sentences of "[adv] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there not some call on judges to be just a little a a little more respectful perhaps when they 're they 're dealing with cases like this rather than as flippant as he |
| 2 | Perhaps when they have had time to cool down and think about it , they will reconsider . ’ |
| 3 | I think perhaps when they open up fully , the flowers , it 'll er perhaps balance a bit better . |
| 4 | Perhaps when they come back they 've got six months you know they 've got a month 's work on their hands . |
| 5 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 6 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 7 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 8 | Apparently when they 're not on the lines , there 's . |
| 9 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 10 | Low level Goblin Shamans are cheap and , to a degree , disposable , so do n't worry too much when they fail their Waaagh test . |
| 11 | Some will use the first name or parental terms ( such as ‘ mother ’ , ‘ father ’ , ‘ Mum ’ , ‘ Dad ’ , etc. ) , others will adopt more formal modes of address ( 'Mr Smith' , ‘ Mrs Jones ’ ) , while many find this awkward situation eased somewhat when they themselves have children and they are able to use the term ‘ Gran ’ or some equivalent ( Firth et al. , 1969 , pp. 418–22 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ My 20-year-old sister was at home alone when they struck . |
| 13 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 14 | Some schools , in principle at least , not only admitted children of all abilities , but taught them together when they had them . |
| 15 | They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor . |
| 16 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 17 | They try to blend them together when they 're really opposites ! ’ |
| 18 | Cos they did n't thunk too much beyond rumbles and scavvying and the scarring ceremonies and maybe a squirm together when they got high . |
| 19 | I shall rejoice greatly when they occur . |
| 20 | ‘ 'Specially when they go orf bang . |
| 21 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 22 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 23 | It must be remembered to breathe in ( using the special breathing technique ) when the arms or legs are up and to breathe out gently when they are down . |
| 24 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 25 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 26 | Went by without Lucy , each dark and light portion of time acquired a date and name only when they met . |
| 27 | The meanings of morse are borrowed from the meanings of , say , English and messages encoded in it are meaningful only when they are interpreted , that is , decoded . |
| 28 | Only when they have examined what hands , arms , legs and feet , body and above all the head can do in isolation and then in harmony with the story , theme or music , can they set out and create a style which will be general in structure and particular in texture , with the right quality , mood , emotion , action and character . |
| 29 | They are free only when they are electing members of parliament . |
| 30 | Only when they dropped or rattled something , the startled way they would look towards Moran , did the nervous tension of what it took to glide about so silently show . |