Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Miss Mair said : ‘ I 'll telephone you when I know when I 'm going . |
| 3 | I will be in touch when I know where I 'm at about all this . |
| 4 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled . |
| 6 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 7 | When I asked where I should send the woman I was told to contact the neurosurgical bed manager , who would tell me which ward to send her to . |
| 8 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 9 | When I see how you treated woman |
| 10 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 11 | ‘ When I think how it was when I joined up … you 're not so badly off down in Florence where at least you 've got a central canteen , but ever since we 've had to do without a resident housekeeper in the smaller stations we 've had to spend half our time teaching mothers ’ boys to cook pasta . ’ |
| 12 | When you know where your dining area is going to be and what size table and chairs will fit best into the space , you can start thinking about how you plan to treat the other important elements in the room the walls , floor and windows . |
| 13 | But er i it took your time up when you know when you might have been enjoying yourself . |
| 14 | I almost hate you for talking to me like this , when you know how you 've ruined my life ! |
| 15 | When you remember when we saw Serena and her in and we were going to buy Christmas presents |
| 16 | A philosopher is a man who , when you ask how his wife is , replies , ‘ In relation to whom ? ’ |
| 17 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 18 | What sort of things will influence the person on the other end of the phone when you say how you say it , what sort of things will go into the impression you create on the telephone ? |
| 19 | You know like when you have where you have like a flat between you if you 're a student . |
| 20 | It is hard work for most amateurs , using unaccustomed muscles , to double dig a whole plot , and although it undoubtedly improves fertility , the effort and perspiration always feels more justified when you understand why you are expending it — so here is the explanation . |
| 21 | Auntie Muriel has old-fashioned ideas about what 's ‘ natural- , everything should be natural , which is pretty stupid when you think where she lives , Anyway , she was quite content with the weeds and the gummed-up filters . |
| 22 | Either way , when you see how we establish lists of goals for this person you can learn some simple principles for establishing your own goals . |
| 23 | When you see how you have marked it , think about the answers you gave and pinpoint the ones where your answers were weakest . |
| 24 | When she heard why she was missing , Di immediately agreed to meet Tessa when her official visit was over . |
| 25 | All the time his eyes were laughing down at her and she suddenly flushed when she realised how she must look , lying there on the grass . |
| 26 | We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally . |
| 27 | ‘ Your mum 's asked my mum to dinner on the sixth , ’ said Sam , ‘ so we 'll do it then , when we know where they all are . ’ |
| 28 | When we know how someone 's filter functions we are more effective at loving them in a way that they will perceive as love . |
| 29 | When we ask how it was , after initial preaching , that people were won for Christ in Corinth , Ephesus , Rome , Thessalonica , Galatia , Colossae , Philippi and the other destinations of the New Testament epistles , clearly the answer is : through the church ! |
| 30 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |