Example sentences of "[subord] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most metals are strongly sorbed to geological materials except when they form negatively charged complexes . |
| 2 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 3 | Except when they made wonderful pictures . |
| 4 | BTW — The Roker Roar : - ‘ Miaow ’ — except when they scored ! ! |
| 5 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 6 | Rather , like insects , they are annoyances except when they seem to possess such overwhelming numbers . |
| 7 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 8 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 9 | Some lessees we hardly saw except when they arrived to pick up their keys and left to return them . |
| 10 | Until now , Danish GPs ' notes were for private use , except when they involved drug prescription , accidents , and insurance claims , or when malpractice was suspected ( see Lancet 1992 ; 340 : 719 ) . |
| 11 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 12 | As the English wife of a Scot , we all join in with the singing , except when they play England — even our little girls , aged 4½ and 2½ years . |
| 13 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 14 | Except when we fall in the bath . ’ |
| 15 | Except when we travel overnight , even then you were sleeping . |
| 16 | Except when something goes wrong . |
| 17 | Black players have to endure endless taunts except when one scores a goal for the hooligan 's team . |
| 18 | My aim was to secure a good head of each species and , in consequence , except when I shot for meat , I shot selectively and seldom . |
| 19 | After all , he refuses to mix with boys of his own age , and rarely leaves this house except when I take him on my rounds . ’ |
| 20 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 21 | That 's UK , except when I get water up my nose . |
| 22 | Except when I get home . |
| 23 | ‘ Except when I had lunch on the train going up to Leeds for Sissie Steinfeld 's son 's wedding … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ My clothes have always stayed on except when I have a bath , ’ she laughed . |
| 25 | After leaving Dekalb at 20 , Cindy always returned to her mother for advice — except when it came to Gere , 17 years her senior . |
| 26 | The basic problem for the Emperor was that while France needed Britain it was not at all clear to British statesmen that their country had any need of France — except when it suited British interests . |
| 27 | But de Gaulle never felt compelled to recognize the military hierarchy which existed before 18 June 1940 except when it suited his interests to do so . |
| 28 | Those few cases which are prosecuted fail to arouse media-indignation , except when it expresses disapproval for the way executives are very occasionally over-sanctioned ! |
| 29 | G agrees the water looks good and says it 's a Class Two river , ’ except when it rains , when it gets all the run-off and also lots of foul water from the foul sewer overflow . |
| 30 | Parliamentary supremacy means that in Britain the courts can not invalidate legislation ( except when it conflicts with European Community legislation , when EC law prevails ) . |