Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't go wrong when you were actually a-shoeing her . |
| 2 | The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed . |
| 3 | Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter . |
| 4 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 5 | It 's much easier when you 're properly equipped ! |
| 6 | so it is so easy when you 're only helping on a side line because you 're not doing any of the thought processing |
| 7 | ‘ And when do you start singing ‘ Yankee Doodle ’ , McAllister ? ’ said Dr Neil , provocative in his turn , but oh , she looked remarkable when she was all fired up , as he supposed she called it , and despite his resolution to have as little to do with her as possible he could not resist continuing to tease her . |
| 8 | It 's hard when you 're away doing films , of course … |
| 9 | The pack 's got to be comfortable when it 's fully loaded . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid you get a bit cynical when you 're actually dealing with them . |
| 11 | Margaret Grundy and Lucy Dallas sported vague notions of being rich and famous when they were still pushing each other round the playground . |
| 12 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 13 | But you know , I felt like saying , well , you know he could have been a bit more considerate and concerned when we were actually going out with each other ! |
| 14 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 15 | So that that is the disadvan , so so wi with this as you say , it 's only on their second one , erm , the increasing benefit plan , the benefits are only increasing when you 're actually claiming , |
| 16 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 17 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 18 | He was mortally disappointed when it was officially declared an accident and there 's nothing he 'd like better than to find some excuse to start ferreting round and upsetting everyone with his ‘ interrogations ’ . ’ |
| 19 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 20 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 21 | A man with a poor employment history , who has lost several jobs and experienced intermittent phases of unemployment , has a considerably raised probability of becoming depressed when he is again made redundant ( Eales , 1985 ) , but will also have a raised chance of being near the top of an employer 's list for redundancy in so far as it is the policy of many employers to exercise a ‘ last in first out ’ policy . |
| 22 | One night I was so tired that I fell asleep when he was still pushing in and out of me . |
| 23 | These are people who were n't even alive when he was actually making music . |
| 24 | Think about that when you are secretly summing me up . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems so strange when it is all settled , ’ I said . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've seen the ‘ rushes ’ and I look hideous — it is n't glamorous when you 're really crying . |
| 27 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 28 | She 's not very attractive when she 's done up but she 's attractive when she 's like sweating it out in her cycling shorts |