Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method was not popular when she had to employ an auditor ! ) |
| 2 | It is much less easy when one has to explain the simultaneous extinction of several unrelated groups , ranging from ammonites to pterodactyls , living in different habitats at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 3 | I felt sad when we had to move out . |
| 4 | If your employee is still sick when you have to stop paying SSP , fill in the Changeover form SSP1 and send it to your employee without delay . |
| 5 | But his persecutors were frustrated when they had to release him a week later , partly due to a technical fault in the warrant for his arrest and partly due to the influence of his friend , Sir Matthew Hale . |
| 6 | She says it is hard when you have to keep the youngsters quiet sometimes for hours . |
| 7 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 8 | I 've got no bottom , and I know how awful and bandy I look , but still I feel good when I have to pierce another hole in my belt . |
| 9 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |
| 10 | Livestock can appear to become split between two or more pieces of glass and while this may not initially seem to be a problem , it can become very irritating when you have to keep altering your viewing position to see your fish and other livestock in their entirety . |
| 11 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 12 | Fate took a turn for the worst as far as fellow-Mancs NEW FADS were concerned when they had to cancel their headlining London gig this week as guitarist DOLAN has temporarily lost control of his right hand through over-use ! |
| 13 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 14 | The juggling becomes most precarious when you have to combine regular work with maintaining a training programme , and fitting in commitments to sponsors and the press . |
| 15 | For instance , women find it very intimidating when they have to attend large business functions , which are still dominated by men . ’ |
| 16 | The slightest error can be disastrous when you have to fit in appliances and units . |
| 17 | The senior porter had said , ‘ Sign here , please , Nurse , ’ and been kind when he had to wait until I could see well enough to sign that No. 4 was David Alistair Grant from Arthur Ward . |
| 18 | A group of Russian orphans who spent a three month break in the region have now been offered places at schools in England.Fifty orphans came to the Malvern Hills as guests of local schools.And they were heartbroken when they had to return to Russia.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 19 | Barbara Gaskin of Jarrolds in Norwich said : ‘ Book Tokens went a bomb , and delivery of new cards was prompt when we had to reorder . ’ |
| 20 | All the kids found it highly amusing when I had to climb up and fetch her . |
| 21 | Goes mad when you have to call him a cockney . |