Example sentences of "[subord] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 2 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 3 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 4 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 5 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 6 | Except when they made wonderful pictures . |
| 7 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |
| 8 | Some lessees we hardly saw except when they arrived to pick up their keys and left to return them . |
| 9 | Most metals are strongly sorbed to geological materials except when they form negatively charged complexes . |
| 10 | As the English wife of a Scot , we all join in with the singing , except when they play England — even our little girls , aged 4½ and 2½ years . |
| 11 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 12 | Languages which have morphological resources for expressing a certain category such as number , tense , or gender , have to express these categories regularly ; those which do not have morphological resources for expressing the same categories do not have to express them except when they are felt to be relevant . |
| 13 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 14 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 15 | Rather , like insects , they are annoyances except when they seem to possess such overwhelming numbers . |
| 16 | Until now , Danish GPs ' notes were for private use , except when they involved drug prescription , accidents , and insurance claims , or when malpractice was suspected ( see Lancet 1992 ; 340 : 719 ) . |
| 17 | Claws on the ground — except when they |
| 18 | BTW — The Roker Roar : - ‘ Miaow ’ — except when they scored ! ! |
| 19 | Except when they are earned by the professor as the supervisor of graduate students , as an academic adviser under the regulations for Recognized Students , or ( subject to the approval of the faculty board or boards concerned and the General Board , including approval as to the length of time for which the permission shall be given ) in respect of tutorial teaching for up to four hours per week ( exceptionally up to six hours per week ) , any fees received for lectures or instruction given by the professor in the University shall be applied towards meeting the expenses of the department of which he is in charge or , if he is not in charge of the department , shall be paid to the Curators of the University Chest for the credit of the University General Fund . |
| 20 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 21 | Except when we fall in the bath . ’ |
| 22 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 23 | ‘ Except when we were making love — that was the only time you seemed to let me anywhere near you . ’ |
| 24 | Except when we travel overnight , even then you were sleeping . |
| 25 | Except when something goes wrong . |
| 26 | Black players have to endure endless taunts except when one scores a goal for the hooligan 's team . |
| 27 | In the absence of such conflicts the local or regional state acts as the instrument of local or regional capitalists , except when their interests are too parochial . |
| 28 | In actual practice , except when its life was extended in the World Wars , that limit has never been reached in modern times . |
| 29 | That 's UK , except when I get water up my nose . |
| 30 | I always do sit with my hands in my pockets , except when I am in the company of my sisters , my cousins , or my aunts ; and they kick up such a shindy — I should say expostulate so eloquently on the subject — that I have to give up and take them out — my hands I mean . ’ |