Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , when no-one even blinked an eye , nor have him any money , nor ( surprisingly enough ) the offer of a job … ‘ ‘ ; the stifling heat in the Métro tunnels , as if it were about to explode at any moment , and this uplifting sense of drifting , passing through whole areas of life scarcely touching on any of them . |
| 2 | Malcolm took note of the way he looked — with his hair all slicked back , a really avant-garde gesture in Glasgow when everyone else was in loon pants . |
| 3 | But ambulancemen have to remain calm when everyone else is the opposite . |
| 4 | You can just imagine this little boy in the playground , when everyone else is kicking a soccer ball , dressed with big padded shoulders and a helmet and an American football — it was quite bizarre really . |
| 5 | When everyone else had finished eating , Chola filled her own plate with the remains of the meat and rice . |
| 6 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 7 | In their notoriously fashion-based hometown they 've stuck out from the crowd by not following rules and soldering disparate musics together when everyone else was trying to fit into narrow categories . |
| 8 | Ed had doubts about Dee — he was a bit , kind of , uncool at times — just like Dee to carry on climbing when everyone else knew it was boring . |
| 9 | They were whispering for no reason except that the dim light and the sense of being awake when everyone else was asleep suggested it . |
| 10 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
| 11 | When everyone else is busy accumulating they get bothered about anyone who is quite happy with a modest sufficiency . ’ |
| 12 | In the early stages of the disease sufferer from alcoholism may be still waiting for the " real " party to start when everyone else is already intoxicated after a much smaller intake . |
| 13 | About Indians who live abroad , he says : ‘ They work long hours , give large discounts , open when everyone else is closed and become well-off shopkeepers . |
| 14 | Having to laugh when everyone else does so as not to appear stupid , hoping no one would be shrewd enough to ask for an explanation . |
| 15 | When everyone else had gone , Gabriel helped Lucie to mend the cart 's wheel . |
| 16 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 17 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 18 | It 's not bad no , no but I 'm just saying it 's not in me , and so wh when everyone else is like mucking around , making fun of me , you know , I do n't do things like that so I do n't think other people can but they do . |
| 19 | Well they did n't want to recognize I recognize the union you see and when , when everyone really knew what we should be having and what were paying , and of course erm it caused a bit of bitterness and resentment against those who would n't join , but er that , that 's what causes the trouble nowadays is n't it and it 's , it 's a sad thing really , but on the whole erm I 've enjoyed everyw everywhere I 've been . |
| 20 | ‘ It is best to cry , ’ she said , ‘ I sometimes cry , when nothing else will serve . ’ |
| 21 | When nothing else happened disappointment diluted her excitement . |
| 22 | Why settle for the predictable , it demanded , when nothing truly attuned to the precarious magic of being alive can ever be predicted ? |
| 23 | The major flaw in attempting to get all the fractious fragments to work together , when nothing really united them except being Right-On , was the massive emphasis it placed on consensus . |
| 24 | They seem to have taken the view that deportation was justified as a last resort when the victim had persistently ignored warnings , and when nothing further could be done to achieve his rehabilitation . |
| 25 | And when nothing further was wanting the limbs began to move and unite themselves together , and both the maidens opened their eyes and were once more alive . |
| 26 | Fear that when I finally go in and face it , ready to start , the old revulsion will rise up in me again . |
| 27 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 28 | It was 4.30 a.m. when I finally said my farewell to the French family and their very charming daughter . |
| 29 | When I finally found him he looked for all the world like a clown . |
| 30 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |