Example sentences of "[adj] but when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have contingency plans for a major incident like this but when it happens it is very difficult to cope . |
| 2 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 3 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 4 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 5 | And when you look at L P G , while it 's in its canister , okay , it 's a liquid but when it meets normal atmospheric temperature and pressure it converts to a gas . |
| 6 | Well some of it erm with some of it is , I mean it 's like the taxation side and , and things like that I can understand quite easily because I 'm used to dealing in that but when it comes |
| 7 | The he-man was spoilt for sports car choice in the mid '60s but when it came to the crunch he would probably have gone for either the Austin Healey or the AC Cobra . |
| 8 | There 's a few thirties and there 's a couple I think probably in their forties but when it comes to the high impact they do n't do it they just step it out you know . |
| 9 | Well the letters were going alright but when it came to that the |