Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had promised the youngest child that she should go to the fair , but she must go when it suited her mother . |
| 2 | He was a bit suspicious I must admit when I bought him those Janet Reger nighties but I knew he 'd never get the chance to wear them . |
| 3 | They might laugh when I wave my hands in the air , but what they do n't understand is , my fingers are dancing to high hat rhythms . ’ |
| 4 | Talking of which , you 'll laugh when you hear I went a bit bonkers myself for a while . |
| 5 | that never did anything , that we inherited , and when we moved all that stuff that was on there , all that junk , erm , when we first moved , I thought it might flourish when it sorted it , but it 's kind of spindly so , that 's gone , no , no , another bush , over this side |
| 6 | ‘ How do you think she 'll feel when she knows you helped brand her father a murderer ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll ring when I want you . ’ |
| 9 | He 'll stop when I tell him . |
| 10 | A sponge , it says sponge on there , what do you think might happen when you put your sponge in ? |
| 11 | ‘ Madge , ’ she cried , running into the next cottage , ‘ Madge , you 'll die when I tell you … . ’ |
| 12 | The least I could do when you told me … |
| 13 | He 'd die when he saw her nightdress ! |
| 14 | A " feeling of knowing " sometimes accompanies an aspect of the dream which is carried over into wakefulness ( for instance the certainty that I could fly when I had my flying dream ) . |
| 15 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |
| 16 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 17 | She had her back to the door and was standing at a filing-cabinet taking out more information she would need when she heard her assistant come back . |
| 18 | She wondered how she would feel when she saw him again . |
| 19 | ‘ I said I wondered how she would feel when she knows her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her … |
| 20 | She did not wait to see what he would do when he reached her . |
| 21 | She 'd be very antagonistic when I was putting the jesses on , so the first thing she would do when I picked her up was pull at her feet and try to work herself loose . |
| 22 | The whole tone of the recording was of a man who was alive in the sense that mattered , the sort of man Charles felt he would like when he met him . |
| 23 | But as I approached home , I was filled with a sense of shame , of uncertainty about how Mum would react when I told her . |
| 24 | I thought Elinor Lambert would die when she saw it . ’ |
| 25 | How did it What wou what would happen when you poured it in ? |
| 26 | ‘ I thought my family and colleagues would faint when they saw me but they loved the new me instantly , ’ she said . |
| 27 | and gave the best fucking he could : if a man does not do this , a young woman 's love will disappear when he has her , and he will not find ecstasy with her : for a young woman , properly brought up , wants to be fucked often . |
| 28 | Yes , I 'm laughing at that because I know Kenny Dalglish will laugh when he reads it . |
| 29 | So the first thing an owl will do when you release it is to scout out the land . |
| 30 | I mean if he 's , I mean he , he says or the implication is that it will stop when they get everything they achieve or perhaps they 've already got what they set out |