Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 2 | My sister-in-law answered the telephone , in the voice which , whether she means it or not , always sounds abrasive and resentful when she speaks to me . |
| 3 | You will behave proper when we get there , wo n't you ? |
| 4 | " Oh , they love it when the kids are babies , dressing them up and looking after them , everybody loves babies , but it 's different when they get older , " they say . |
| 5 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 6 | Some of them got religious or went barmy I seem to remember , but the point is they were all different when they came back . |
| 7 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're always different when they come back , ’ Keelan said . |
| 9 | They know they will be different when they come back … for the better . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't want to be different when we went to the dance . ’ |
| 11 | Matters are somewhat different when we come to dispositions where the modus is in the public interest . |
| 12 | ‘ It 'll be different when we join the snake , ’ I said . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll feel different when we get home . ’ |
| 14 | We demand that it changes , we beg of it to alter our lives , we leave it for two hours and assume it will be different when we get back . |
| 15 | It will be different when we get down to League games . |
| 16 | The situation is , however , rather different when we move from ‘ pure ’ to ‘ practical ’ reason , from the analysis of the conditions and character of knowledge to the consideration of morals and action . |
| 17 | Nor is the situation any different when we look at the trial-and-error component of the behaviour by which bees learn to harvest flower species efficiently . |
| 18 | No , it just look different when you took them off |
| 19 | It 's never any different when you go back though . |
| 20 | And er that was a very interesting period because it was nineteen thirty nine and of course the , what the , my impressions of America were quite different when you got there , from er what er their er impressions of the world situation were . |
| 21 | IT 'S ALL DIFFERENT WHEN YOU 'VE GOT KIDS … |
| 22 | Some groups of consonants sound similar and therefore could easily be misheard , they look different and feel different when you say them . |
| 23 | Not when you you 've got It 's different when you have the time though . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Another friend who had known him since his teens said : ‘ He was different when he came out , he scared people . |
| 26 | Butler was , perhaps , not saying anything so very different when he observed that ‘ equal educational opportunity is not identical educational opportunity ’ . |
| 27 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 28 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 29 | The United Kingdom , the Kingdom of Belgium and the Hellenic Republic argue , however , that the position is different when it comes to the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thinks fit the conditions upon which it grants to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 30 | Things are somewhat different when it comes to the sales decision : here it seems that many worked out at quite an early stage that the sales strategy ought to take a reservation form ( with perhaps an intermediate section to take account of risk and risk aversion ) . |