Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are particularly popular when I play in front of old people . |
| 2 | Its presidential candidate , Mrs Violeta Chamorro , brings to the fray a symbolic appeal as the widow of the murdered publisher of La Prensa , but lacks any political experience — a fact that becomes embarrassingly clear when she appears in public . |
| 3 | Its presidential candidate , Mrs Violeta Chamorro , brings to the fray a symbolic appeal as the widow of the murdered publisher of La Prensa , but lacks any political experience — a fact that becomes embarrassingly clear when she appears in public . |
| 4 | But he made it clear when he arrived in Perth the next day that he disagreed with Marsh 's sacking , an interesting observation given that the players ' code of behaviour specifically states that they are not permitted to comment on selection decisions . |
| 5 | I hoped that Mavis had n't passed on my thoughtless , remarks about his easy-going approach to work and was therefore somewhat self-conscious when he appeared in my office at half past two on the dot . |
| 6 | It was so funny when we recording in Dan , do you remember when we were recording at Aaron 's getting up ? |
| 7 | It 's a vicar 's house , and thousands and thousands of pounds were spent and one wonders , you know , really whether this was the right moment , you know , the piquant moment to be doing this when we have in our streets men and women who erm are in desperate need . |
| 8 | We seem to resent this when it happens in English — when we leave the ‘ t ’ off the end of ‘ hot ’ , for example , and replace it with a ‘ glottal stop ’ ( try saying ‘ hot milk ’ three times quickly ) . |
| 9 | Professor Richard Titmuss rather implied this when he wrote in his Essays on the Welfare State that : |
| 10 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 11 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 12 | That 's the worst time for her , she gets afraid when she wakes in the night . ’ |
| 13 | The morale of the Lawrence Tiller Girls was high when they appeared in two Royal Command Performance shows before he retired in 1936 |
| 14 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 15 | The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . |
| 16 | And the rubbish bin in the kitchen was empty when I looked in it as we left . ’ |
| 17 | Now this house had been standing empty when I came in it , for twelve months . |
| 18 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |
| 19 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |
| 20 | I agree with Sir Frederick Pollock 's note on the case of De La Bere v. Pearson , Ltd. when he wrote in Pollock on Contracts ( 13th ed. ) , 140 ( n. 31 ) that ‘ the cause of action is better regarded as arising from default in the performance of a voluntary undertaking independent of contract . ’ |
| 21 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 22 | Now it 's easy when you deal in numbers like that because if you go to sixteen |
| 23 | I know how much you like your bed , was it nice and on , was it nice and warm when you got in bed last night ? |
| 24 | He became quite frightening when he got in a rage trying to explain his last minute ideas : |
| 25 | She was n't ill when she came in here … yes , she was sure of that … but she was ill now . |
| 26 | Hard ‘ It will be hard when they play in their small stadium but England will be too strong at Wembley . ’ |
| 27 | It 's cold when you get in the car in n it ? |
| 28 | Is the weather as bad as people keep telling me because it was Okay when I drove in this morning . |
| 29 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 30 | Employees change for the better when they work in the community . |