Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 2 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 3 | ‘ I derive my enjoyment of food from its colour , texture and the combination on the plate when I eat ; so these are the things that I concentrate on when cooking for customers , ’ she explains . |
| 4 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 5 | How you met her , how she got on when she first came over here … ’ |
| 6 | It is impregnated with glue , and fabric can be ironed on when dampened . |
| 7 | Most of the torpedoes were built from fibreglass and cardboard tubing and weighted to fall properly when dropped . |
| 8 | who wants to go somewhere when the channel tunnel |
| 9 | In the circuit of Fig. 6.14(a) , for example , linear acceleration and deceleration profiles are produced by integrating a signal which turns on when the motor is to accelerate and turns off when deceleration in required . |
| 10 | Both can be presumed to matter most when and where they are most influential — as in the charting of the interests , concerns and methods of analysis that make up a new academic discipline . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 13 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 14 | For example , what goes on when looking at , say , a Matisse in an art gallery . |
| 15 | Roughly , and somewhat metaphorically , we can say that something of the following sort goes on when successful communication takes place . |
| 16 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 17 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 18 | It goes on when you 're actually preparing statements , affidavits , pleadings , all those things which will eventually be used in court . |
| 19 | Doctor goes on when one considers her potential life in terms of an academic achievement and marriage with a family , one can only say that without a shadow of doubt she has been devastated and her emotionally devastation will I fear , increase over the years , unquote . |
| 20 | Oh yeah , but I mean it just goes on when you need it all new . |
| 21 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 22 | We were about to carry on when we saw two women with their loads of pine-needles coming down the path towards us . |
| 23 | ‘ It is impossible to carry on when your boss is undermining you , ’ he told colleagues . |
| 24 | The picture becomes almost a real person to the boy , replacing his dead grandmother and helping him to carry on when circumstances seem to be against him . |
| 25 | Children suffer most when Dad beats Mum |
| 26 | It is , however , the direct producers , not the capitalist class who usually suffer most when this occurs as , for example , the tin miners of Bolivia and the rest of the world found out when the London Metal Exchange terminated its tin contract in 1985 ( Crabtree , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | Mrs Carson asked crossly when Ruth appeared . |
| 28 | Very often the chair in which the dead person used to sit most when they were alive , becomes a chair in which no-one else sits . |
| 29 | Wrung bitterly when life seemed Hell . |
| 30 | It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language . |