Example sentences of "when [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I can write it but when I is what quick ? |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll call you when yours is ready . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She does n't always have to upset the table , though , when she is there , does she ? ’ remarked Henry Tyler in a tone that at least one ambassador had been known to call ‘ eminently reasonable ’ . |
| 4 | If a woman catches German Measles when she is pregnant , it can seriously harm her baby . |
| 5 | This was first apparent in The Quest ( 1943 ) where the arabesques danced in many ways became the movement through which Una ( danced by Margot Fonteyn ) expressed the emotions aroused when she is assailed by the four false Knights and then her joy when rescued by St. George . |
| 6 | It is equally important when she is wearing a soft tunic or one-piece tights and leotard . |
| 7 | Even Durante , who has a tendency to forget her character when she is dancing , responded at times with an uncharacteristically voluptuous abandon . |
| 8 | We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious , and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of ‘ Thatcher Milk-Snatcher ’ derived from her own breast-deprivation , which denies her all happiness and allows her ‘ only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories . ’ |
| 9 | She prefers the auditorium , even when she is there in an official capacity , as John Young , chairman of the National Hospital , discovered to his dismay . |
| 10 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 11 | Lili , needless to remark , is unhappy : when she is in the heat of the Nile she longs for the mists of England , and vice versa . |
| 12 | ‘ We hope you do n't mind our saying this , but do you think it wise to let Mrs Ross go out alone at her age when she is not used to living in the country ? |
| 13 | In the idiom of mythology , when the Goddess is actively destructive She is depicted alone , whereas when She is the nurturing cosmic mother and the embodiment of God 's benign grace , She is represented as the spouse of a dominant male god , Shiva or Vishnu . |
| 14 | It is compounded when she is also young and childless . |
| 15 | She will play when she is relaxed , but although she is now seven or eight years old , she still has the exaggerated movements of a young puppy . |
| 16 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 17 | We hope was are still working with her when she is thirty — if she still wants us then . |
| 18 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 19 | Tandia by Bryce Courtenay ( Mandarin , £4.99 ) — Half-Indian , half-African , beautiful and brilliant , Tandia is a teenager when she is brutally violated by the South African police . |
| 20 | She is a bloody hurricane when she is in the mood . |
| 21 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |
| 22 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 23 | If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ? |
| 24 | Leapor 's ‘ An Essay on Friendship ’ is more comprehensive rebuttal of Pope 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ( see below ) , yet it is evident that Leapor also has the poem in mind when she is writing ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ No man could come near to imagining the anguish experienced by a woman when she is forced to give away her child so that she herself may live ! ’ |
| 26 | Drawing once again on the detective genre , Pynchon complicates the linear hunt for information , partly by rendering every detail as ambiguous as possible and partly by having Oedipa literally go round in a huge circle when she is pursuing an ‘ underground ’ mail courier . |
| 27 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 28 | In most countries it is customary to test the mother 's blood for evidence of syphilis when she is first seen for antenatal care , and this one measure is probably responsible for the extreme rarity of cases of early congenital syphilis . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's OK , ’ said Henry , ‘ you can fill up on choc bars and then pretend to eat it and when she is n't looking I 'll sling it in the bin . ’ |
| 30 | So she go to Palestine to meet with them , and she then meet you with boat in Aden when she is coming home again , you remember , ja ? ’ |