Example sentences of "[conj] when [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so if they do come down , or when they do come down , I think it it will benefit the area , as long as something better is repl is there to replace them . |
| 2 | This motion condemns rise in unemployment caused by the incompetent handling of the Tory government 's economic policies and I ask for support of the T U C campaigns for the unemployed , but I would beg really that when we do campaign , the T U C gives us more than two days to notify us of rallies and meetings . |
| 3 | It is interesting to note that when they do discover some titbit amongst the bottom debris , they very rarely charge off with it as they normally do when picking up our hookbaits . |
| 4 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 5 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 6 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
| 7 | Phillips agrees and admits that when they did tighten up the protocols according to suggestions from Randi the effects could not be obtained . |
| 8 | the management were , were clearly trying to identify the , the whole process in regard to the machine shops in particular first of all , so that when they did move into the fitting er departments , they would have all the materials there necessary to , to give our members the , the feeds you know , for , for producing the m er items . |
| 9 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 10 | There was still the possibility that when they did meet outside , it would be a beginning , and not the end that neither wished for , but both half-expected . |
| 11 | There , climbing a tree , you ruined your frock and dropped the letter , which a stranger read and tore so badly that when you did get to the post it was n't fit to send . |
| 12 | So all I can really say is , I do hope you enjoy your visit here to England and that when you do go back to the States you will feel that it 's really been well worthwhile . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 14 | We Danes get so little sun that when it does shine on us we like to take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 15 | So that 's that 's one to Every now and again on your own just look through a couple of the papers and have a go at that , so that when it does come up on the exam you 're not kicking yourself |
| 16 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 17 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm scared to death half the time that when I do start talking about the woman in my life that I wo n't know where to stop , and … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why is it that when I do fall , it has to be for a termagant who drives me out of my head ? |
| 20 | A spokesman : ‘ I have nothing new to say , except to say that when I do have something to say I will say it . ’ |
| 21 | How do I erm , change it , so that when I do file retrieve , it lists directories in put ninety three . |
| 22 | They became terrified of him knowing that when he did appear , his object was to select one or two of the best dancers to complete troupes in America . |
| 23 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 24 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 25 | And when they do wake up to the situation , they find that the combat against relativism is not a clean , hand-to-hand fight but a wearing war of nerves against an enemy who is everywhere and nowhere , friendly but deadly at the same time . |
| 26 | This is because at first they lack the strength to hurt , and when they do acquire it they quickly learn that a too-powerful play-attack ends the enjoyable encounter . |
| 27 | The travellers say they 've already started a clean-up operation and when they do go , nobody will ever know they were there . |
| 28 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 29 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 30 | Large end plates tend to ‘ stick ’ to sea beds when grounding and when they do come off have been known to carry around lumps of the said seabed for some time . |