Example sentences of "be [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love him like nothing else in my life , but Paula and I had been together when we were all planning Project Eden , before I even met Sam , and I loved her too , and somehow I just could n't stop seeing her … . ’ |
| 2 | The car was in fact unroadworthy and had been so when sold . |
| 3 | Paste waxes are best when applied to bare wood , while liquid waxes are suitable for use on furniture that has been French polished or lacquered . |
| 4 | They 're relatively cheap , but need engine rpm to deliver full output and are best when handling one operation at once . |
| 5 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 6 | The airmen who they belonged to , is believed to have been away when the things were taken . |
| 7 | When would it have been approximately when he started this would you say ? |
| 8 | They 're so naff , they 're so when I first went to she was really like , you know , alright ? |
| 9 | So the way you talk normally when you 're outside when you 're playing football that 's not the same as you need to talk when you 're writing is it ? |
| 10 | her mum really she 's got a lot on , she 'll have a lot on cos she 's got to prepare for that wedding , you know what you 're like when you , you 've got |
| 11 | That 's what they 're like when I fetch them in , it 's not bad is it ? |
| 12 | We 're here when they need us and are n't paid when they do n't . ’ |
| 13 | If you 're here when I go , you will be coming . |
| 14 | Make sure you 're there when it happens . |
| 15 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |
| 16 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 17 | ‘ You could never have imagined the club would be where they are now when you look back on the liquidation crisis , ’ he said . |
| 18 | But in its more extended and generalized uses it can become remarkably similar to the ‘ informing spirit ’ of idealist cultural theories , and this can still be so when it offers ( but does not include or specify ) a ‘ last instance ’ referral to the economy or to the mode of production . |
| 19 | How can that be so when today 's diktat is a contemptuous dismissal of the community 's united protest ? |
| 20 | But if it is desirable to assign a property to an entity , then that will far more frequently , although not invariably , be needed precisely when the property is not an inherent quality of the entity in question ; further , this will especially be so when the property is tied to some particular event — hence the high incidence of present and past participles among postnominals . |
| 21 | An individual tachyon whizzing backwards through time is not going to have any discernible effect on the past : it would be only when streams of them were encoded and transmitted to hypothetical ‘ tachyon detectors ’ that the paradoxes would begin . |
| 22 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |
| 23 | I 've got mine back on , but it wo n't be long when I get out the bus mind , but |
| 24 | A little praise and an extra cuddle will be enough when the child is young . |
| 25 | To be just when you have not received justice . |
| 26 | The truth is that reporters are constantly swapping jobs and assignments and that your contacts may be away when you most need them . |
| 27 | The results obtained with the latter system appear to be best when the ewes are contained in small paddocks or fields as the uptake of drug is less consistent under extensive grazing systems . |
| 28 | Young Paul happened to be home when she mentioned it , and looked up over his spectacles . |
| 29 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
| 30 | The one thing Katherine had n't bargained for when she executed her well-laid plans was that her brother Leo might not be home when she arrived . |