Example sentences of "when [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 2 | When everyone in the country lives with the prospect of having their house destroyed by a bomb during the night , the Christian talk of Armageddon seems less fanciful than in the ‘ weak piping times of peace ’ . |
| 3 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 4 | Bayes ' postulate is that , when nothing to the contrary is known , the probabilities should be assumed to be equal . |
| 5 | Bayes ' postulate is that , when nothing to the contrary is known , the probabilities should be assumed to be equal . |
| 6 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 7 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 8 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 9 | I always read them erm when I about Fulford . |
| 10 | when I out Eric ? |
| 11 | But early on you see he when I before the war he 'd nothing was first of all a push bike |
| 12 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 13 | When someone like that from your past looms in front of you there is a kind of shock . |
| 14 | He looks , sounds and acts youthful , and it is a great shame when someone like him decides to retire absurdly early . |
| 15 | When someone like Mosse , who 's had a kind of public face , goes wrong , he really beats all . ’ |
| 16 | So when someone in a child 's life dies they are often told fabricated versions of what has happened . |
| 17 | When someone in the group became temporarily wealthy through employment , there would be a red wine party . |
| 18 | ‘ It is extremely serious when someone in a position of trust over women , to whom they go for intimate advice , education and examination , behaves in this way . |
| 19 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 20 | This was made very evident when someone in the Belloso Battalion shouted across to the Atlacatl Battalion , who were on our left flank : " Attack ! |
| 21 | Mr Wolski did not understand this , but he always smiled when someone in authority smiled and he smiled now . |
| 22 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 23 | Taxation is an occasion when someone in judicial office will see your file and this will be a reflection on your firm . |
| 24 | Now , you may be a little embarrassed to discuss how you work with people other than in this classroom , although , as the course goes on , you 'll find more and more people doing Hamlet in other classes , and you might find , especially when you 're in the upper sixth , when someone in the lower sixth comes to you and says , what does this mean that you can talk about it with them , okay . |
| 25 | Later at the buffet lunch in the marquee he barged to the front of the queue saying , ‘ Oh , I do n't believe in queuing ! ’ and when somebody behind him objected , convinced her with a sort of apologetic bashfulness that actually he has diabetes , you see , and so needs to eat right now . |
| 26 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 27 | When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts . |
| 28 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |
| 29 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 30 | And when you for example , see ads in the Times , you know , these pathetic people who say , I 've lost my filofax , five thousand pounds reward to anybody who gives it back to me , because my life is in ruins . |