Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When you 're vice-president you have a lot more spare time . ’
2 and when you 're kids they seemed so big !
3 He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that .
4 And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well .
5 When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents .
6 When we are children everyone has expectations of us .
7 When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us .
8 Er I when we were midwives we used to say that was the way to bring a child up but w when you 'd had your own you sort of bent the rules a little bit more .
9 When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ?
10 God , we used to come here when we were kids you know ?
11 When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty .
12 If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised .
13 to play with , when they 're babies you ca n't do nothing with them .
14 Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on .
15 Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add .
16 I just do n't know what was wrong with it , I 've work , Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing , right but he said when it 's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm , right so I 've come home and I read the paper and I 'll see glow worm in it , so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory !
17 With a performance of such towering strength and breathtaking pathos that it would make the stones weep , Depardieu 's bulk and energy turn Jean into a force of nature even when it is nature he is fighting .
18 When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive .
19 He especially liked them when it was William who had the plaster that had to be taken off .
20 He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well .
21 When it was time I did n't tell Mr Lawler that I was going , I just left .
22 When he was king he was normally accompanied by the clerks of the royal chapel so he had plenty of opportunities to indulge in the pleasures of ritual .
23 One of the great characters of the cutter fleet at that time was Leo Brock , ex P & 0 purser and when he was chef he demanded an assistant — and got one .
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