Example sentences of "when you [verb] [pron] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 2 | ‘ When you know there 's a bird that matches it 's description but you know it 's extinct , it just does n't sink in . |
| 3 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 4 | Just when you thought there was no one watching over nomes , the universe went and tried to prove you wrong … |
| 5 | When you heard there was a minister coming I was just afraid and looking to see would you see that dark black clothed individual coming . |
| 6 | ‘ When you say you 're a singer , people do n't go , ‘ Well , what do you really do ? |
| 7 | Of the forty who said yes , what do you mean by that when you say you 're a feminist ? |
| 8 | Yes , but when you , when you say it 's the end of time it 's , you get some people saying yes it 's always the end , for some country it 's always er collapses or what me have you , it 's always then for some government or country |
| 9 | Erm I mean I I have some concerns , like Cynthia , about the number of careers officers who suddenly appear when you say there 's a visit to , Hull University , and we 've got people coming from all over the county and it 's costing us a fortune . |
| 10 | When you start there is a sense in which everything you do is right , there is no clear sense of wrong , though of course it is here that you may make the inevitable false move , take the inevitable wrong turning . |
| 11 | ‘ You use the ejector when there is no alternative ; when you reckon there is no way of controlling your aircraft and you know you are going to crash . ’ |
| 12 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 13 | Er we got through it.Erm and when you think there was no money from anywhere but that five shillings a week that we got from the , from the er I think it was called the Board of Guardians , I 'm not sure , and er we survived . |
| 14 | But I said it 's always the way when you think it 's a good examiner she or she , she gives you bad results and when it 's a bad , think oh an awful examiner I mean look at that one where you got that really tough examiner and you and Jenny was the only two that got honours . |
| 15 | Dr John Sykes , of Oxford , has won the national title ten times ; not too surprising when you consider he is a lexicographer ( a compiler of dictionaries ) . |