Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control and communication functions of middle management become redundant when everyone has access to their own computer terminal . |
| 2 | when someone says nix ? |
| 3 | Services should be able to provide temporary or permanent ‘ asylum ’ in the sense of a haven or retreat when someone requires shelter and protection from the pressures of the external world . |
| 4 | In reading this short passage we are likely to make an assumption : that when someone makes breakfast , it is eaten . |
| 5 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 6 | ‘ Assistance with Mortgage Repayments ’ available from the Building Societies Association , ‘ What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems ’ by John McQueen , published by Elliot Right Way Books , ‘ How to Cope with credit and Deal with Debt ’ by Ann Andrews and Peter Houghton , ’ Debt : A Survival Guide ’ available free from the Office of Fair Trading , Field House , London . |
| 7 | But when someone has AIDS , he or she may be unwell from a number of illnesses because the body 's defence or immune system is not working properly and can not fight infections . |
| 8 | ‘ When someone wants writing or programming , I can offer them that . |
| 9 | ‘ When someone starts work here , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 10 | I mean , we are all er very sympathetic at the end of the twentieth century , but , you know , we can still laugh when somebody says fart on stage . |
| 11 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 13 | When she catches sight of me she smiles and I feel guilty for scorning her . |
| 14 | This could be the case , for example , in Conversation F-1 where Valerie assumes a Creole-speaking persona when she expresses irritation . |
| 15 | NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her . |
| 16 | Her last visit ends a 17-year relationship with the town and celebrations will be tinged with sadness when she weighs anchor and sails off . |
| 17 | For instance , everyone makes such a fuss of Elizabeth Taylor when she loses weight , pampering her and commenting on how good she looks , but when she regains it , as she always does , we are told how ugly and inflated she is , and even she does not escape comparison — with Joan Collins . |
| 18 | By doing this you will enlarge her family circle , and by ignoring her nervousness — but praising her when she shows independence — she will broaden her horizons . |
| 19 | But she often takes a rather beautiful candle into the hall when she teaches drama . |
| 20 | You may recognize this when she seems kind and wise beyond her years , but there is no hint of pretentiousness in her manner . |
| 21 | When she makes love she screams like a banshee , and things are inclined to get knocked over . |
| 22 | My mum remembers long ago when she makes snow men , together |
| 23 | go on then , my mum remembers long ago when she makes snow men in the snow and pulled a face at Mrs Jones |
| 24 | long ago when she makes snow men in the snow and pulled a face at Mrs Jones |
| 25 | POOR Beth endures male chauvinism at its ugliest when she starts work for Doug . |
| 26 | WRITTEN ON THE BODY Jeanette Winterson The genderless narrator is deeply in love with a beautiful woman who returns to her doctor husband when she develops skin cancer . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like to represent the country in either sailing or hockey , ’ says , who plans to train as a PE teacher when she leaves school . |
| 28 | A similar dazzling double-take is achieved by Moira , who works as a secretary in a big office and wears bog-standard floral Laura Ashley trousers and cotton jumpers like the rest of us , but when she leaves work pulls on a very old duffle coat — white at the seams , so old that it ca n't be accidental — which screams out , ‘ I am an intellectual , actually . |
| 29 | Joanna 's experience will be invaluable to the college when she relinquishes office at the end of the Proctorial year . |
| 30 | The marital bed : the altar of marriage ; and when one says altar , one implies sacrifice . |