Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 2 | He said so to his wife when everyone had finally gone home . |
| 3 | Still , people often do it without thinking , especially in a fight when everyone falls over and starts rolling about on the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 5 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 6 | Thus when you are the only person to get up when a lady comes into the room , or when everyone has half finished their food and you are still waiting for Grace , by standing up , for failing to lift fork and knife , you are drawing attention to the sins of omission of the others and silently rebuking them . |
| 7 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 8 | Naturally I say , ‘ Hang on a minute ’ , and when I turn round she is off in the kitchen banging saucepans about . |
| 9 | He 'll have disappeared when I turn round , she thought . |
| 10 | Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down ! |
| 11 | Where we practise in England — I wo n't reveal where — Pete 's always there when I turn up . |
| 12 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |
| 13 | What am I going to say to him when I turn up empty-handed ? ’ |
| 14 | Well you will be able to when I turn around . |
| 15 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 16 | I believe I hurt them when I ran away , and with my way of life . |
| 17 | When I ran away I was going to the beach , but as I got near it I recognized someone I was avoiding . |
| 18 | But when I ran away from the orphanage , I was so nearly trapped again . |
| 19 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 20 | When I ran out of breath I 'd come up for another helping , then duck the head again . |
| 21 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 22 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 23 | ‘ When I ran out , I 'd paint the white ones brown ! ’ |
| 24 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |
| 25 | When I reach out to the big mug of coffee on the table , it is cold , and I wonder how long I 've been asleep . |
| 26 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 27 | But somehow I just managed to miss Leading Aircraftsman by two per cent when I passed out . |
| 28 | I wanted to be Agnetha , the blonde one , when I grew up . ’ |
| 29 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 30 | As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work . |