Example sentences of "[conj] when [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't give this copy away to Oxfam or when they collect for the hospital . |
| 2 | There are times when we become particularly conscious of it — when we read poetry , or when we come to something we can not easily follow . |
| 3 | We contemplate both the small things and the great realities , at times when it is very hard work , when we feel spiritually dry and unreceptive , or when we rejoice in God and receive his refreshment . |
| 4 | Wait until you get , what , do you want it now or when you go to bed , take it to bed ? |
| 5 | Having started on the leash from the sitting position , you should also break the walk with the command ‘ sit ’ , as will be necessary when you are opening the car door , for example , or when you come to a road . |
| 6 | If this bracing action is not achieved at the top of the backswing , it will be caused either by the right foot folding over on its side during the backswing , or the right knee moving out of alignment with the toes , before or when you arrive at the top of the swing . |
| 7 | We may have a genetic pre-disposition to cancer , but where or when it appears in our body is determined by a combination of factors . |
| 8 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 9 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 10 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 11 | okay , well one last thing , I start with the last thing at the beginning , strangely , I mean you 're obviously getting all the technical details and all the expertise from people who know far better than I do , so I 'm not going to go into much technical detail until perhaps a bit later , which might come up if we get a debate going or when I look at your press releases . |
| 12 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 13 | Except when we fall in the bath . ’ |
| 14 | My aim was to secure a good head of each species and , in consequence , except when I shot for meat , I shot selectively and seldom . |
| 15 | After leaving Dekalb at 20 , Cindy always returned to her mother for advice — except when it came to Gere , 17 years her senior . |
| 16 | Parliamentary supremacy means that in Britain the courts can not invalidate legislation ( except when it conflicts with European Community legislation , when EC law prevails ) . |
| 17 | Entering the measurements is quite straightforward , except when it comes to the armhole measurement for set-in sleeves . |
| 18 | There are no classes , no social hierarchy in prison , except when it comes to drugs . ’ |
| 19 | Most pupils have little creativity or imagination , except when it comes to thinking of excuses for not having done their homework . |
| 20 | Except when it comes to girls ! |
| 21 | Except when it comes after C except after C. |
| 22 | With a registered title , this is normally the only final search you make except when you act for a mortgagee : then a bankruptcy search must be made against the borrower because your title search will not , of course , reveal anything about him or her . |
| 23 | She was able to give a good account of herself and was reasonably cheerful during the interview , except when she talked about her boyfriend and about the distress she had caused her parents . |
| 24 | I suspect that when we inquire into the matter , we shall find that the general practitioner had doubts about the treatment 's clinical appropriateness . |
| 25 | Do we find that when we sit in worship , often the language that preachers use , especially when they use some of the so called theological language . |
| 26 | Maybe we think that when we get to heaven , Paul and the other pioneers of the New Testament will have positions of greater honour than the members of St Leonard 's in 1992 . |
| 27 | So that when we get to the mock interview stage , no , no one can actually back out , no one can pretend that they were just sent by their council . |
| 28 | The argument for this might be based on the claim that when we speak to someone we are using a ‘ code ’ , and the most efficient codes do not use unnecessary symbols . |
| 29 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 30 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |