Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] when it [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | You see , Jack Scamp was absolutely stark-staring red-mist fucking paranoid jealous when it came to anyone messing about with his wife . |
2 | We were all surprised when it happened , we could have gone on supporting her ’ . |
3 | What I did n't know — what the situation disguised , if you like — was that the poor girl really was helpless , plain silly when it came to anything practical . |
4 | A moment came in the technical run-through when it erupted . |
5 | The draft union treaty was clearly superseded by these developments , and as the Kazakh president , Nursultan Nazarbaev , told the USSR Supreme Soviet when it reconvened in early September , only a much looser confederation would satisfy the aspirations of the republics that still wished to establish some kind of association . |