Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I nearly choked laughing when I heard you were doing a breakfast show . |
| 2 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 3 | Earlier , Alex Aitken , of the Conservative Collegiate Forum , was loudly applauded when he said it was ‘ intolerable ’ that taxpayers should have to fund the left-wing propaganda of the NUS . |
| 4 | Erm I mean I I have some concerns , like Cynthia , about the number of careers officers who suddenly appear when you say there 's a visit to , Hull University , and we 've got people coming from all over the county and it 's costing us a fortune . |
| 5 | They are given a company car to get from A to B , and their main work starts when they get there is n't it ? |
| 6 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |
| 7 | I 've forgotten when you said you 're going to Ottawa but if that 's really soon & I do n't hear from you before then , have a great time , I hope the meetings are short & the pints are big ! |
| 8 | ‘ Need for subplots , ’ he muttered when she thought he was asleep . |
| 9 | So the first thing an owl will do when you release it is to scout out the land . |
| 10 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 11 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 12 | So she was not only watching but being watched when she thought she was by herself , when she was taking her clothes off and putting them on and so on . |
| 13 | Some men feel easily humiliated when they discover they are impotent in middle age . |
| 14 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 15 | Material gain We allow ourselves to be persuaded when we think we are going to get richer , to have a more luxurious lifestyle , to make acquisitions . |
| 16 | Workmates at GEC in Manchester had at first joked when he said he was unable to stand after kneeling to pick something up . |
| 17 | Catriona had already laughed when she realised it was n't a joke . |
| 18 | At the sound of footsteps the Captain looked around , and frowned when he saw it was Mum bearing down on him . |
| 19 | Louisa had lied when she said they were friends . |
| 20 | ‘ First Aid ’ breathing exercises are those you can use when you find you are under stress . |
| 21 | He says they have 2 kinds of bite : a ’ go away ’ bite and the bite they give when they think you 're food . |
| 22 | The second step is controlling the actual physical effects on you of all the adrenaline which is produced when you sense you are in a threatening situation . |
| 23 | what happens , then his she stands there , you bloody by four but I mean he finished when I said he was gon na finish for a change I should think . |
| 24 | It is not unlike the feeling a good scientist gets when he senses he is within range of something interesting . |
| 25 | And then when I went to talk to the sister , me , you know I fuck when I rang she was she had to have an operation on her knee , the whole kneecap was broke . |
| 26 | That 's why I despair when I read what is passing for news in some of the tabloids . |
| 27 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 28 | Some of the extreme cases ( such as the Yorkshire miners who would strike unless electricity were connected to their village ) did reach the public eye , and it became clear that Citrine was not fooling when he said there were many equally damaging examples for which the chairmen would insist on pinning the blame where it belonged — on government . |
| 29 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 30 | She says they all panicked when they realised they were stranded . |