Example sentences of "[vb infin] when [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That day , Arnór Jarlaskáld had made one of his erratic descents upon Orkney , and the talk in the hall was worth listening to , as was the singing , but it was as well that the women should know when to leave . |
| 2 | Fat people 's bodies just do n't know when to say no. for example , it is easy to tell when your body has a fever , is in pain or is tired . |
| 3 | ‘ They do n't know when to put the brakes on , like the continentals do . |
| 4 | Yes , she would know when to use her charm and warmth , she would know how to use her will-power right vibes when they appear . |
| 5 | Lewis says he 'll know when to retire , but will never follow Frank Bruno into panto . |
| 6 | Yet this writer 's abiding impression of the eighties is that management along with the government did not know when to stop . |
| 7 | He threw himself vigorously into the work in hand , and presented the aspect of one who did not know when to stop . |
| 8 | Like Dönitz , he did n't know when to stop , and in the end I had to prod the interpreter to bring him to a close . |
| 9 | OH YES they bloody can , even if they do n't know when to stop jumping and when to get their lives together . |
| 10 | He came — she felt the moment in pain and sadness — but he continued to move , banging at her , clutching just that part of her that he needed , as if he 'd felt nothing , as if he did n't know when to stop . |
| 11 | ‘ Trouble with this lot , ’ Rogers said , ‘ do n't know when to stop . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You just do n't know when to stop ! ’ |
| 13 | The only trouble is , I do n't know when to stop . ’ |
| 14 | How do birds know when to migrate and , even more puzzling , how do they find their way ? |
| 15 | ( In a different way , the teacher must also know when to hold himself back and allow the student 's personality to flower . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Certain guys just do n't know when to quit , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The bastard just did n't know when to quit , did he ? |
| 18 | ‘ He has had his time , made his money and to have him come back , well , people do n't know when to quit ’ |
| 19 | I drank all my soup , I did n't hunt , I do n't know about fashionable Scotland , I dropped ice cream on the table , I did n't know when to begin to eat . |
| 20 | When he did not speak , but just jerked his head as if a fly had buzzed near his ear and irritated him , when he did not greet her , not even by name , let alone with the caressing words she had so often uttered in her games of make-believe , Rosa began , murmuringly , ‘ I did n't know when to come down , I wanted to be sure no one was awake … . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll let you know when to come in . ’ |
| 22 | They heard the geese know when to fly North , and when to fly South and navigate by the stars and by the lay lines in the earth , it 's just is n't it magical ? |
| 23 | We had no system to let the announcer know when to speak until a glass studio window was installed . |
| 24 | Or will he know when to jump , to pass the baton , Carl Lewis-like , on so that Fianna Fáil remain ahead of the posse ? |
| 25 | In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) . |
| 26 | They could choose when to study what and play the rest of the time if they chose . |
| 27 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 28 | Some of the commercially available plastic sunflower-seed feeders look as if they have been designed by someone made redundant from the spaceship industry , but they do keep the seed dry and let you see when to refill . |
| 29 | Britain still can not decide when to play the mandarinate game of silence with the Chinese and when to break the rules ( as Beijing does all the time . ) |
| 30 | Only you can decide when to begin your exam preparation . |