Example sentences of "[adj] when you [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 2 | ‘ I was doubtful when you told me about sharing your house with two young vets , but now I think you were right . |
| 3 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 4 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 5 | ‘ It sounds pretty cold-hearted when you put it like that , but I love that little girl . |
| 6 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 7 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 8 | ‘ It looks kind of more graceful when you see it from the ground . ’ |
| 9 | He is evil when you say it like that . |
| 10 | ‘ Was he always alone when you saw him at the house ? ’ |
| 11 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 12 | For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way . |
| 13 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 14 | But I do n't want to be alive when you reject me for it . ’ |
| 15 | I felt pole-axed when you accused me of using you . ’ |
| 16 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |