Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 2 | And the daughter would very much like to meet you when they come to tour here , as would Eddie . |
| 3 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 4 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 5 | Books from Boots Library had small labels in them which , if a reader wanted to buy it when it had finished its circulation life , he could fill in and give to the librarian when he returned it . |
| 6 | May we draw on God 's power to strengthen us when we feel tempted to do wrong . |
| 7 | He had not anticipated that she would still retain sufficient will-power to deny him when he had asked his empty , ritual question . |
| 8 | Yeah , okay but we 'll have to do it when we 've got time |
| 9 | Neither was she aware of the mumbled words that passed her lips as the hours went by , nor of the method he used to warm her when she started to shiver again . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 11 | I 'll send someone out to call you when they 've gone . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , you ought to watch it when you go had n't you ? |
| 13 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 14 | It followed that the employer was entitled to dismiss him when he refused to go to a new site and was justified in refusing him redundancy pay . |
| 15 | It would be a crime not to take it when you want to go eastwards out of the Ossau valley . |
| 16 | erm if , if , if you , if you , if you take this view of excesses you 're not unhappy for that to happen in order to move it forward as long as you maintain the control necessary to stop it when it 's gone too far , which is exactly what he does . |
| 17 | Before starting to write , read through the whole of the examination paper and jot down in the margin the names of plaintiffs ( or criminal defendants ) in any relevant cases you remember , the dates of statutes and any other details that are likely to elude you when you come to write out the question . |
| 18 | But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right . |
| 19 | An older woman officer made it her business to tell her when she had done wrong , and she admits to at least one incident she seriously mishandled . |