Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] [vb base] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may depend if an opportunity should occur I will not fail to send a letter and I have to request in a [ letter torn ] fervor that you will post a letter to me at least once a week commencing from Monday next , with all particulars respecting your health etc etc directing them P. Office Launceston until called for , and when I again reach this place I will write immediately . |
| 2 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 3 | At the start , when you still have enough energy to argue if you can see Schiehallion or not , and your first piece of chocolate has yet to be unwrapped , the distant peak beckoning on the far side of the ridge is sensational . |
| 4 | I just hate lying , when you suddenly hear these things come down on , just have visions of like a a po pouring out . |
| 5 | So often we give children pat , reassuring answers when we really have all sorts of unanswered questions ourselves . |
| 6 | And you 'll meet some of them when we actually do that area . |
| 7 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 8 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 9 | But the essays are most demanding and ultimately most productive when they too occupy that position of liminality between the discourses that uneasily constitute us and our knowledge of the world . |