Example sentences of "[adv] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps when they have had time to cool down and think about it , they will reconsider . ’ |
| 2 | So , really I do n't know what 's the best way to start , just ask you give a brief resume of where you 're at , if you 've done if you 've got it in hand , if you have n't got it hand erm and then perhaps when we 've done that we might er look at possible resources and stuff get off now . |
| 3 | Perhaps when we continued ordering , often secretly , the most expensive armaments in the world . |
| 4 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps when you 've got over your pet , you 'll give us some answers . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , perhaps when you 've finished work for the day , you 'll be able to find all the peace and seclusion you 're looking for . |
| 8 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 9 | Would you see them much when you 'd gone to work ? |
| 10 | It startled her that he should know this much when she had tried so hard to be circumspect in making her enquiries . |
| 11 | " Yes , " he said aloud when she had gone . |
| 12 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 13 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 14 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 15 | When the midwife interrupted the prayers to inform him he had another daughter he replied tersely , " I 'll attend to it all when I 've finished here . " |
| 16 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 17 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 18 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 19 | Thus they treated innovation with extreme caution , and employed advanced technology only when they had satisfied themselves that it could be incorporated without visible effect into their style of living . |
| 20 | Only when they had gained experience of the re-heat sets at Dunston ( in 1952 ) did they concede its flexibility , and re-heat became standard in their new stations from then onwards . |
| 21 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 22 | The first part dealt with unmixed foil and stated that ownership in the foil would transfer to the buyers only when they had paid all that was owing to the sellers . |
| 23 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 24 | ‘ These big international companies recognise borders only when they want to use them to set one workforce against another , ’ says one . |
| 25 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 26 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 27 | Such students are strongly advised to come to Edinburgh on their own , in the first instance , and to send for their husbands or wives and families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 28 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 29 | Only when they have examined what hands , arms , legs and feet , body and above all the head can do in isolation and then in harmony with the story , theme or music , can they set out and create a style which will be general in structure and particular in texture , with the right quality , mood , emotion , action and character . |
| 30 | In contrast to the administrative procedures operating before 1986 , the Act authorizes warrants to be granted for preventing as well as detecting crime , thereby compromising the important question of principle identified by Dicey that ‘ preventive measures are inconsistent with the pervading principle of English law , that men are to be interfered with or punished , not because they may or will break the law , but only when they have committed some definite assignable legal offence ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 249 ) . |