Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 2 | Only when they are fully fledged and ready to fly do they demolish it and leave . |
| 3 | Only when we were about to board the helicopter were we told we were going instead to Rangkul . |
| 4 | But it so chanced it was covered deep , and came to light only when I was here to see . |
| 5 | It seemed that he would n't be kind when I was ill , but only when I was badly behaved and unpleasant to him . |
| 6 | Below-the-collarbone lengths tend to drag your face down when it 's already suffering from the effects of gravity . |
| 7 | He stored it up — the mind 's ability to store is inexhaustible — and wrote it down when he was finally released . |
| 8 | ‘ Old people commonly are despised , ’ observed Richard Steele , ‘ especially when they are not supported with good estates ; ’ while another commented in 1621 how , in contrast to the common ‘ pleasure in infants ’ shown by women , ‘ old people are burdensome to all ; neither their talk nor their company is acceptable . ’ |
| 9 | She deals with the many administrative jobs , thus giving the band time to work on their music , especially when they are not touring . |
| 10 | It is a great shame more people are n't backing them , especially when they are well established in the top six . |
| 11 | It 's a strange genre , gothic rock , especially when you 're barely given the opportunity to contemplate the fusion of goth and rock beyond the actual live experience . |
| 12 | Especially when you 're not gon na like me for this because , you 're not gon na like me for this but I think one think about Foxy is he is two faced . |
| 13 | Especially when she 's about to cry . |
| 14 | ( Described by her adoring husband early in their marriage ) ‘ Her eyes seemed bigger to him , especially when she was just waking up and fluttered her lids several times in succession ; they were black when she was in shadow and dark blue in full daylight ; and they seemed to contain layer upon layer of colours , which were thicker in hue deep down , and became lighter towards the enamel-like surface . ’ |
| 15 | He was fond of his wife in an absent-minded way , especially when she was not nagging at him , so he took a Kleenex out of the kitchen box and went back to her , saying rather hopelessly : ‘ Here , have a Kleenex . ’ |
| 16 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 17 | At Hendaye , Franco stated personally what had already been said in his letters and through his ministers and officials : Spain was committed to helping the Axis , but could only do so when she was materially equipped for war and assured of her " rightful " territorial claims in North Africa . |
| 18 | Right , so when you 're actually telling him , what do you say ? |
| 19 | So when you are actually checking out a book the librarian runs a little light pen , is it , over the code , so that it |
| 20 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 21 | She shoves her nose in when it 's not wanted . |
| 22 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 23 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 24 | ‘ So my own cottage on the Donegal shore where I can slip away when I 'm not filming is the answer . |
| 25 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 26 | Ergo , every autumn those trees with any sort of seasonal sense at all shed their leaves , which are pretty useless anyway when there 's not going to be much Sun around , and ride out the storms on bare poles . |
| 27 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 28 | ‘ Suppose it comes up just when we 're about to sign the Agreement ? |
| 29 | Incidentally , the ability to respond visually to very slow movements fits in well , for the semi-circular canals fail to respond to slow rotations , so the visual mechanism takes over just when it is most needed , when the inertial mechanism fails . |
| 30 | ‘ If the companies all draw from the same research and technology base , we may inhibit technical and product innovation , just when it is most needed ’ , Albert Sobey , an industry consultant from Michigan , told the subcommittee . |