Example sentences of "[subord] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , like insects , they are annoyances except when they seem to possess such overwhelming numbers . |
| 2 | Some lessees we hardly saw except when they arrived to pick up their keys and left to return them . |
| 3 | Except when he had to go to sea . |
| 4 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 5 | Maxim swamped his eyes with water time and again dulling the pain except when he tried to see . |
| 6 | There 's a touch of elegance about many of the costumes , except when you try to sit down . |
| 7 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 8 | This will be a more flexible list because prices tend to creep upwards ( except when you want to sell anything ) and your tastes and finances might well change a little or a lot along the way |
| 9 | road and the line nearer to you is solid , you must not cross or straddle it , except when you need to get in and out of the premises on side road . |
| 10 | Except when she 's got the cars out |
| 11 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 12 | The Petersen bass is the one at the moment , and I 'm fairly happy with it , although when you get to work with something you realise what its strengths and weaknesses are . |
| 13 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 14 | Erm the other parts that I made a note of , you did n't ac well you Steve said the wife will be back in an hour and a half erm you did n't pick up Bill any , anything on that at that stage as to whether she ought to be involved although when he started talking or when he could n't remember the , the names of the or dates of birth of the children , he remembered the names , the dates of birth of the children , you mentioned the fact then that the wife would be back in a in an hour |
| 15 | Cheering , in wild enthusiasm and their best clothes still , the clansmen swung back aboard their galleys , and heaved them round and away again , a sight happier than when they 'd gone to Inveraray . |
| 16 | It was certainly a great deal darker than when they 'd arrived . |
| 17 | Prime Ministers from Eden to Wilson left office with their prestige lower than when they had entered Downing Street . |
| 18 | They all seemed to have more luggage than when they had started . |
| 19 | Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse . |
| 20 | The great burrow was less crowded than when they had left it . |
| 21 | It was dark now , but warmer than when they had left the coast nearly two hours before , and the air tasted like something breathed through a hot towel . |
| 22 | Whenever teachers have assumed they were marking the work of boys , they have consistently rated it as ‘ better ’ than when they have assumed it was written by girls . |
| 23 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 24 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 25 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 26 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 27 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 28 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 29 | Sir , on that after you 've had food does more fre more often than when you 've had nothing to eat ? |
| 30 | In the morning his head felt as if the cast of a soap opera had moved in uninvited during the night , and the effort of following their interminable dreary intrigues left him mentally soiled and worn , less refreshed than when he 'd gone to bed . |