Example sentences of "[be] [verb] when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems this has given rise to are compounded when one examines our import record . |
| 2 | On coach/air and coach touring holidays , all road tolls , ferry and port charges are included and on self-drive holidays , port charges are included when you book our special rate ferry tickets . |
| 3 | They are discharged when they reach their target weight . |
| 4 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 5 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 6 | A chance to read , and be informed as to what we 're buying when we buy it . |
| 7 | in Baywatch you do n't understand what they 're saying when you read it . |
| 8 | DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead . |
| 9 | Where had he been going when he left her ? |
| 10 | ‘ The habits are blessed when they make their final vows , ’ I said . |
| 11 | If only she could understand the excruciating pain her boys are suffering when she treats them like this , and realise that they will carry that pain for the rest of their lives . |
| 12 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 13 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 14 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 15 | Father hated to be disturbed when he had anybody with him and I could see he was annoyed so I made myself scarce ; I mean I did n't stay to say what I wanted . ’ |
| 16 | Again , they might be matched when you get 'em , but after a month of use , they wo n't be matched any more . |
| 17 | Again , they might be matched when you get 'em , but after a month of use , they wo n't be matched any more . |
| 18 | The teacher takes on the role of an alien , who says that the crew of the Starship must be lying when they say their leader is a man . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 21 | These should be replaced when they lose their resilience . |
| 22 | Ye 'll be drivin' when we take it over . |
| 23 | I 've told them that I 'm hoping to replace their old hard-hat helmets with this new scuba equipment , but they think I 'm joking when I tell them they wo n't have any hoses to the surface . " |
| 24 | I could do but it 's er I did n't want to I 'm choosing when I wear it and when I do n't . |
| 25 | What 's funny is them being ‘ outrageous ’ , ie it 's so sick you 've just GOT to be joking when you say it . |
| 26 | All the rakes in the county will be converted when they know what reforms you have worked on our old friend . |
| 27 | It 'll all be changing when she owns her flat . |
| 28 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 29 | Do n't bother thinking about hitting me or saying anything about me cos I 'm swear when I catch you I 'll kill you . |
| 30 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |