Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 2 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 3 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 4 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 5 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 6 | Reinforcement occurs when I help you in some way and you reciprocate by helping me . |
| 7 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 8 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 9 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 10 | When I told her about this |
| 11 | When I told her about this . |
| 12 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 13 | said down the corridor he walked in his full uniform , the first morning say and that memory son will always stick ya , cos when I give her over that picture of the twins at Christmas , she , she looked up , she sort of looked up at me , she said I 've got tears in my eyes have n't I , and I looked and like I was choked as well and I , she sort of , I said yeah you are and she said , every time I look at them it brings back those memories the first memories of this little boy |
| 14 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 15 | But when I accused her of that , she firmly shook her head . |
| 16 | ‘ Normally , when I hit anybody with that punch they do n't get up , but as Ruddock was getting to his feet I just kept watching him and I could tell by his eyes that he was hurting bad . |
| 17 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 18 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 19 | When I press him for more names he suddenly gets the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look , and , deciding he 's already revealed too much , replies , ‘ Ah , just people . ’ |
| 20 | The base of skull injury is here , when you get somebody with that base . |
| 21 | ‘ When you get something like this you always get souvenir hunters but the ship itself is the property of the Receiver of Wreck and it is theft to take anything from it . |
| 22 | ‘ When you get it like that , it 's definitely a fluke , because usually it 's laborious . ’ |
| 23 | And that ties up When you get it like this a tenth of the speed . |
| 24 | When you know something like that , you have absorbed it so deeply into your consciousness that it is never likely to be displaced , except perhaps by brain-washing or frontal lobotomy . |
| 25 | When you catch something like this , the first thing you do is give in to it . |
| 26 | The uniforms were , the equipment was and yet it worked , it really worked , how efficient I suppose when you judge it from modern standards , I do n't know . |
| 27 | For James — Pam 's 7-year-old son — I bought several ‘ beginner 's tricks ’ plus a plastic dog turd that steams when you fill it with hot water . |
| 28 | Ruins it does n't it , a cartoon when you , when you analyse it like that I think . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When you put it to Sole that his approach to captaincy is more intellectual than gung-ho he laughs : ‘ Well , I am not a Finlay Calder by any means . |