Example sentences of "when [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone is prepared , you call out one of the words . |
| 2 | When everyone is sailing there are still unused craft ashore , so there 's lots of choice . |
| 3 | When everyone is speaking at once in a meeting , keep talking in a calm , reasonable manner . |
| 4 | In Tenerife , seven nights at the Laguna Park II Apartments starts at £159 per person and only £225 at the hotel Oasis Paradiso on half board during December , just when everyone is shivering in Britain . |
| 5 | How gear is that when everyone is jumping everybody else 's train ? |
| 6 | One possibility is to take the loss now , in the current balance sheet , when everyone is feeling pain . |
| 7 | Which makes it when everyone 's working . |
| 8 | Souness often spouts on about deals when nothing is happening . |
| 9 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 10 | When someone is bereaved they have to make considerable readjustment socially speaking . |
| 11 | When someone is said to act or react with ‘ full ’ or ‘ sufficient ’ awareness — qualifications which recur in our argument without further explanation , with no doubt irritating frequency — it is implied that he is aware of everything relevant to his choice of means or ends . |
| 12 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 13 | What is likely to matter most when someone is buying your product is a quite vague general impression that it is familiar and that they have heard good of it somewhere : not an explicit memory of an ad . |
| 14 | It is suggested that when someone is threatened with a weapon during a crime the victim may focus his or her attention on the weapon to a degree which may subsequently hinder identification of the assailant . |
| 15 | Under fire from referees for his comments as a defence witness at Salisbury Crown Court last week , Kelly retorted : ‘ When someone is facing a prison sentence and all the immediate trauma that it involves for his family , I believe the sensitivities of referees should come second rather than first . ’ |
| 16 | When your skin becomes damaged by sunburn it loses heat and moisture more easily and when it is extensive then sunstroke follows when someone is dehydrated and lacking salt . |
| 17 | When someone is asked a question , it is likely that before answering he will direct his gaze away from the questioner 's eyes ( Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) particularly if the question requires some thought . |
| 18 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 19 | On letters written on typewriters made from old toothbrushes and elastic bands , prisoners facing death tell their correspondents of daily life in the jail , of the regulations , of the procedure before an execution is carried out , of how their cell light shudder under the strain when someone is electrocuted in the chair . |
| 20 | ‘ When someone is told to do something , their good discipline ensures the job is done . |
| 21 | It is always sad when someone is driven into a corner and becomes desperate . |
| 22 | When someone is purchasing a vehicle erm they are told that they have a guarantee or a warranty , in actual fact it 's mechanical breakdown insurance . |
| 23 | When someone is doing this it is very difficult to gain commitment . |
| 24 | you have all heard rumours about who is using clenbuteriol and when someone is caught farmers will say : ‘ It 's about time the Department caught up with him ’ . |
| 25 | When someone is infected with HIV , the virus is present in body fluids and inside some of the body 's cells . |
| 26 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
| 27 | You brought up the special point there , really that , that when someone 's watching football match I think you said |
| 28 | When someone 's looking at you . |
| 29 | There 's a close-up of a guitar when someone 's playing the piano , and a close-up of the back of someone 's head when someone else is f—ing flying over the other side of the stage . |
| 30 | When 'e 's backed the lorry in the yard we close the gates like I said . |