Example sentences of "when something is " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system is only successful if you are confident that your horse will be treated as an individual and that the people helping you care enough to spot when something is wrong . |
| 2 | Fast expensive cars only whine when something is really wrong . |
| 3 | As with most supernatural occurrences one never knows just when something is going to happen and this is the case in the studio . |
| 4 | When something is magnetised , it dumps heat into its surroundings . |
| 5 | With value-added tax , and the other charges made when something is bought and sold , things are comparatively easy . |
| 6 | You 've never listened to the things I say , and even when something is an obvious fact , you never quite seem to believe me , or to trust me . |
| 7 | Cold water cisterns are also fitted with an overflow pipe ( more correctly called a ‘ warning ’ pipe ) which sticks out of the house through the eaves ; the tell-tale drips or steady stream will tell you when something is wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ When something is spilled , I hand them the cloth . |
| 9 | Motorists would benefit in other ways too , eg. the difficulty of overtaking a cyclist on narrow streets when something is coming from the opposite direction . |
| 10 | ‘ When something is totally unexpected , it 's terrible . ’ |
| 11 | things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it |