Example sentences of "when [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , when we 're all like , laughing and joking and everything he 's like , oh yeah really in with it but when everyone 's like arguing or whatever he he
2 If government says that a unanimous verdict is necessary for criminal conviction because special moral harm is suffered when someone is unjustly convicted of a crime , then it must take that special moral harm into account in considering , for example , the admissibility of confessions under various circumstances .
3 Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter .
4 But most of the time I did n't write because one day was just like the day before , and sometimes I thought — what 's the use of writing anyway , when nobody is ever going to read it ?
5 Layla , our loving secretary , has at last learned that when she 's adamantly refusing some tenacious committee member and I say , ‘ Here , give me the phone .
6 She 's not very attractive when she 's done up but she 's attractive when she 's like sweating it out in her cycling shorts
7 But even when she 's fully grown she wo n't be much over two feet tall .
8 Just then one of Father 's secretaries , who was standing right behind me , said , ‘ Such purity of line , do you notice , even when she 's only showing that sweet child how to curtsy . ’
9 She can pop down to the basement , make herself a cup of coffee until the colour is removed when she is then encouraged to style her own hair !
10 Now , when she is fully dilated , which will take some time , I will tell you to stop .
11 Tandia by Bryce Courtenay ( Mandarin , £4.99 ) — Half-Indian , half-African , beautiful and brilliant , Tandia is a teenager when she is brutally violated by the South African police .
12 On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all .
13 It takes courage to speak out when one is well known .
14 ‘ It 's quite amazing what turns up when one is least expecting it , ’ says Laurie Milner of the Imperial War Museum , who has been collecting material here .
15 The hon. Gentleman will appreciate the difficulty of moving on people who lead a nomadic lifestyle when there is nowhere to move them to .
16 Where do you go when there 's nowhere to go ?
17 How could they be short of money when everybody 's always paying in money ?
18 Below-the-collarbone lengths tend to drag your face down when it 's already suffering from the effects of gravity .
19 now when it 's finally approved the highway and transportation from it will be corporated as a specific service provision within the name Suffolk .
20 Do n't forget that when it 's transcribed , when it 's professionally transcribed , all the names will be changed , so you 'll all be anonymous .
21 when it 's completely sorted out Chrissie erm oh I do n't really know what to say , she 's having this desk for Christmas
22 The pack 's got to be comfortable when it 's fully loaded .
23 When it 's really flaming away and it 's the wood burning and not the Paraffin , then you put the lid back on loose , It may be that you 've over-filled , which is fine .
24 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing .
25 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing .
26 She started to go , and then turned back , saying cheerily , " Just think how nice it will be when it 's all finished with , " and then she actually added , " Well , I must go and feed my puss-puss now , or she 'll be ever so cross . "
27 I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
28 Ah , but when it 's actually done it 'll be connected wo n't it ?
29 But it 's alright just you know knowing about that , but when it 's actually going to happen to you , it 's something totally different .
30 We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two .
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